EDI-X12 is a uniform standard for inter-industry electronic exchange of business transactions- electronic data interchange (EDI) administrative and financial transactions. For more information about EDI-X12, see the website http://www.x12.org/.

The B2B Data Exchange EDI Accelerator is used to receive EDI-X12 messages (inbound) validate and parse them into Informatica canonical xml format. In the same manner, it is used to send EDI-X12 messages (outbound), serialized from the canonical structure to the EDI-X12 format.

For more information about the Informatica canonical format, see Data Transformation Libraries Guide.

The EDI Accelerator currently supports the following EDI Documents for both Inbound and Outbound traffic:

EDI 810 Invoice
EDI 820 Payment Order/Remittance Advice
EDI 850 Purchase Order
EDI 855 Purchase Order Acknowledgment
EDI 856 Advanced Ship Notice (ASN)
EDI 997 Functional Acknowledgment
TA1 Interchange Acknowledgment

The EDI Accelerator supports EDI-X12 versions 4010 to 6040.

The following image shows the message processing flows between the customer, the organization B2B EDI Accelerator package, and the supplier.