Creating Statements from EDIFACT Interchange Files

EDIFACT is an international standard for electronic data interchange. EDIFACT stands for Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce, and Transportation. EDIFACT is maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). If you use the EDIFACT format for electronic ordering in Acquisitions, then you may be already familiar with the format. Horizon uses EDItEUR’s guidelines for the EDIFACT format.

If you want, you can create Horizon statements automatically from EDIFACT interchange files that your vendor sends you. When your vendor sends you an EDIFACT interchange file, you can upload the file to your Horizon database. You can then choose the EDIFACT invoice messages from the file that you uploaded to Horizon to create Horizon statements. After Horizon creates a statement, you can view the EDIFACT invoice’s information as a statement on your Horizon system.

Effects

Horizon uploads the vendor-supplied EDIFACT files you choose.
Horizon processes the EDIFACT invoice messages you choose and creates a statement from the information in each message.
You can view errors (if any occur during uploading or processing) in the edifact_exception view from the Table Editor.

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