Using Identifiers for Trading Partner Lookup Scheduling Trading Partner Downtime

6 Creating and Deploying Trading Partner Agreements 6-1 6 Creating and Deploying Trading Partner Agreements The final steps in the Oracle B2B process flow, shown in Figure 6–1 , are to create and deploy the agreement. Figure 6–1 Oracle B2B Process Flow The image shows a step diagram linking the following blocks from left to right: 1. Oracle B2B Document Editor: Create Document Guidelines; 2. Oracle B2B: Create Document Definitions; 3. Oracle B2B: Configure Trading Partners; 4. Oracle B2B: Create Agreements; 5. Deploy Agreements. A trading partner agreement defines the terms that enable two trading partners, the initiator and the responder, to exchange business documents. It identifies the trading partners, trading partner identifiers, document definitions, and channels. This chapter contains the following topics: ■ Section 6.1, Introduction to Agreements ■ Section 6.2, Creating an Agreement ■ Section 6.3, Deploying an Agreement ■ Section 6.4, Deleting and Exporting Agreements See the following for more information: ■ Chapter 9, Managing Deployments, for how to export agreements and manage deployment states ■ Chapter 7, Importing and Exporting Data, for how to export agreements Create Document Guidelines 1 Create Document Definitions 2 Configure Trading Partners 3 Create Agreements 4 5 Oracle B2B Document Editor Oracle B2B Deploy Agreements 6-2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle B2B

6.1 Introduction to Agreements

An agreement consists of two trading partners—the host trading partner and one remote trading partner, and represents one type of business transaction between those partners. For example, if Acme and GlobalChips participate in both EDIFACT and RosettaNet exchanges with each other, you create an agreement for each of the exchanges. Some exchanges are bidirectional, requiring an agreement for each direction. For example, if Acme sends a sales order to GlobalChips using a Custom document sent using the Generic File protocol, you create an agreement for the outbound direction, where Acme sends the order, and for the inbound direction, where Acme is the receiver. A change to a component of an agreement for example, a change to the document definition is effective automatically in the agreement. Creating an agreement is the last step in the design of a B2B transaction. Before you create an agreement, you must have already created the document definitions and configured the trading partners. See Chapter 4, Creating Document Definitions, and Chapter 5, Configuring Trading Partners, for more information.

6.2 Creating an Agreement

Figure 6–2 shows the Oracle B2B interface for working with agreements. Click a remote trading partner name to see its agreements with the host trading partner. Figure 6–2 Creating an Agreement The image shows the Oracle B2B screen. The top left pane shows the Partners and the bottom left pane shows the Agreements. The main pane of the screen shows the Agreement tab. Figure 6–3 shows the steps to create an agreement.