(Demo in webinar Link for Users chapter 4 - “Set up a new partner and distribution”)
When onboarding a new B2B partner based on allready available document formats, three things have to be set up in Link - assuming that the document type and format already exists:
Partner
Distribution
Transport
First step - Create partner
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Partner (the one you exchange documents with - customer, supplier, logistics partner etc.)
Transport (the way the documents are sent and received)
Distribution (the “road” from/to a specific partner for at specific documenttype)
Partner and Transport
Go to the menu Partners - Choose New partner.
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As minimum the following things have to be filled out:
Contacts = primary contact person at your partner
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One of Locations, FTP or Certificates??????
The transport of documents from and to your partner is defined by the setup in one of these three taps. See Exchanging documents/files with your partner
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Locations
During the test period, it’s recommended to set up Transport Type “TestBox”. Then the document will not be sent anywhere.
Add location by the “+ “ under the location tab.
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Choose transport type:
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When you choose have chosen the transport type the fields to fill out for this specific type shows up.
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During the test period, it’s recommended to set up Transport Type “TestBox”
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When ready to exchange documents with the partner, see description of how to do this in different cases under Exchanging documents/files with your partner
Conversions and Configuration Keys: these are for handling special data requests for the specific partner. See: How to ensure reusability between partners
Next step - Set up distributionDistribution(s)
You have to define two partners at all distributions. The one partner is your own ERP-system or other order handling system. This can be either From and To partner or both depending on if you receive andor and/or send documents.
Go to the menu Distributions - Create new
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Some locations are global. Others need to be set up under the menu Transport - see Exchanging documents/files with your partner (During the test period the Location is set to TestBox. Then you can test documents without any risk of sending it somewhere.)
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The available From and To formats have been configured by your developer or by a developer at Bizbrains.
Next step - Upload of testfileTesting
To test the documentformat document format from your partner, you can ask your partner to send you a testfile by email to upload manually under the Distribution. In the same way you can upload a testfile, either to send it to Testbox and send the raw datafile to your partner - or to the transport location agreed with your partner.
If you agree to exchange more document types with same transport, the partner and transport are now created, and you just need to add and test new distributions.