3PL - Buyer messages

A 3PL warehouse receives the products that your company, as the buyer of these products, has purchased from your vendors.

Buyer 3PL EDI messages are the EDI messages that your company, as a buyer, can send to or receive from a 3PL warehouse.
In EDI studio, you set up your side (the buyer side) of the EDI message exchange with a 3PL warehouse. So, you do not set up the EDI messages at the 3PL warehouse. Of course, you set up your side of the EDI message exchange in close cooperation with the 3PL warehouse. Because the exchanged data must match.
This flow shows the buyer 3PL EDI messages that are supported by EDI Studio.

Activities

Name	Responsible	Description
Receipts list	Buyer	If you want to use EDI to send receipts lists to a 3PL warehouse: Set up the related document flow for the 3PL warehouse with the 'Warehouse - Receipts list to XML' message from the desired tutorial project. Use this setup to send receipts lists through EDI messages.
Product receipt	Buyer	If you want to use EDI to receive product receipt information from a 3PL warehouse: Set up the related document flow for the 3PL warehouse with the 'Warehouse - XML to Arrival journal registration' message from the desired tutorial project or a custom 'XML product receipt to EDI inventory order' message. Use this setup to receive product receipt information through EDI messages.
3PL warehouse receives receipts list	3PL warehouse	The 3PL warehouse receives the receipts list from the buyer.
3PL warehouse sends arrival journal update	3PL warehouse	The 3PL warehouse sends the arrival journal update to the buyer.

3PL - Buyer messages

Receipts list

Product receipt

Activities

Receipts list

Product receipt

See also