The identification of the trading partners is an essential issue for the Electronic Data Interchange. It is even more important to identify the locations precisely and unambiguously with EDI than with traditional paper documents.
The Party Information message serves to maintain the trading partner's master data files.
The Party Information message can also be used by the trading partners to feed a central catalogue of addresses, making the information available to all interested parties.
By using location numbers and describing them in the Party Information Message, the trading partners can use these numbers to refer to the appropriate locations in later exchanges of trading documents.
The Party Information Message is used to specify information related to physical locations and to functional locations. A functional location is usually a specific department within a company.
One separate message has to be provided per type of function required (e.g. add, change, delete, etc. BGM DE1225).
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