Web Methods Trading Networks
Web Methods Trading Networks
Networks
Agenda & Objectives
Why Trading Networks?
Architecture of Trading Networks.
Planning your Network.
Large doc handling.
Why B2Bi
Roles in B2Bi
Suppliers: Sell through traditional sales channels or their customers
web-based procurement systems and e-market places.
Buyers: Examples of buy-side systems – Ariba, SAP, PeopleSoft,
Commerce One, Oracle and others.
Market Makers: Third-party organizations that run e- marketplaces
using Internet technologies to connect multiple buyers with multiple
suppliers so that participants can reach new trading partners, conduct
e-commerce, and take advantage of Web services such as payment,
logistics, and collaboration.
Web-Service providers: Third-party organizations that provide buyers,
e-marketplaces, and suppliers with Web-based services—including
payment, authentication, logistics, credit, business registries, and many
others —necessary for completing B2B e-commerce/integration.
Typical Business Scenario
Business benefits of B2Bi and
Challenges
Measurable impact on Businesses
Increased revenue, efficiency.
Lower costs of doing Business.
Increased agility.
The ability to enhance and compliment existing business processes
and technology investments (ERP, Supply chain, CRM).
Supplier challenges
Accepting multiple orders.
Order management.
Catalogue considerations.
Existing systems and integration.
Web Methods Trading Networks
TN Architecture And Components
Trading Partner Management
You add partners by adding their Profiles, which is achieved by doing the
following:
-Defining profile information you want to collect about partners.
-Standard profile fields
-Extended profile fields
-- Create your own profile.
-Use Profile assistant
-Start adding profiles for your partners
-Use either profile assistant or Profile screen (by ‘Duplicat’ing your Profile.
Profile fields
Standard
Corporate
Corporation name
Partner type
External ID type, Value
Contact
Contact type, role, Last name, First name, E-mail.
Delivery Method
Protocol, Host, Port, Location, E-mail, Use as Preferred Protocol.
Max Delivery retries, Wait between retries, Retry factor, Polling method,
Polling frequency, Use Public queue, Use Private queue (Partner specific
fields).
Security
Sign, Decrypt
Certification, CA chain, Private Key.
Encrypt, Verify
Extended
Group Name, Custom Fields.
Business Document Exchange
Business document exchange involves establishing how you want
Trading Networks to handle the documents it receives from your
trading partners.
TN receives a document,
It determines whether the document is large or not (configuration property).
If Large, does not attempt to read the document content into memory. Rather, it
writes the document content to hard disk drive space and stores only a pointer to
the document content in memory.
When TN Processes the document and needs to access the document,
It checks to determine whether the document content is in memory or in hard
disk drive space.
If the document content is in hard disk drive space, it accesses the document
content from the hard disk drive space. Trading Networks either uses a Java
InputStream to read the document content, or it retrieves a certain number of
bytes of the document content.
Limitations, Minimum hardware requirements, Configuring, Services that
recognize Large documents.