Trading Partner (EI01)

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Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Programs

EI01 Trading Partners

Purpose: To maintain a table of trading partners and their associated paying office Customer Codes.
Frequency: Upon installation of the system or as new trading partners are required.

Trading Partner

To access existing records or to create new records in the Trading Partners table (See (EI01) Trading Partners), a Trading Partner code, up to eight characters in length is entered into this field. The trading partner code must exist in Pro_EDI before any processing can occur.

Description

The trading partner name, 30 characters maximum.

Customer

The customer code for this trading partner. The customer code must be the paying office to handle retail-trading partners where the stores are individual customer codes in SU13 with one paying office.

Dummy Customer

Enter a customer code with a paying office equal to customer code in field 03 or leave empty.
The dummy customer should be used if sales orders are entered in OE30 for stock reserve purposes and then reduced as shipment orders are received for the goods.