Building B2B / EDI Integrations

B2B Manager is Celigo's EDI hub for exchanging structured business documents with trading partners. It handles X12 (ANSI) and EDIFACT (UN) standards over FTP, AS2, and VAN connections.

An EDI integration has these Celigo-specific components:

• Trading partner connector -- a pre-built template (590+) defining the connection type, EDI profile defaults, and export/import field requirements for a specific trading partner
• EDI profile -- interchange envelope settings (ISA/GS for X12, UNB for EDIFACT) that identify sender/receiver and control document versioning
• File definition -- parsing and generation rules that describe the segment/element structure of a specific EDI document type (e.g. Costco 850, Walmart 856)
• Connection -- FTP, AS2, or VAN credentials for the trading partner's EDI endpoint
• Exports and imports -- file-based data sources/destinations that use file definitions to parse inbound EDI or generate outbound EDI
• Flows -- pipelines wiring exports and imports together with transformations

EDI Standards

X12 (ANSI ASC X12) -- North American standard. Documents are transaction sets identified by 3-digit codes (850 = PO, 810 = Invoice, 856 = ASN, 997 = FA, 855 = PO Ack, 846 = Inventory, 860 = PO Change). 50+ additional types supported including healthcare (834/835/837), transportation (204/210/214), and supply chain (753/843/861). Envelope: ISA → GS → ST → segments → SE → GE → IEA. Versions: 4010, 5010, 4030, etc.