Step 3: Agreeing on Process Specifications and Parameters
After the models have been created and the processes defined and agreed on, the next step is to agree on the specifications and parameters for the information interchange. This step gets more involved in the technical data formats of the information.
Specifications are created and can be based on industry standards, such as XML, X12 EDI, SAP IDOC, or UN/EDIFACT, or the information can be structured simply as flat files, such as delimited, positional, or delimited and positional formats. From this data format and specifications the appropriate filters can be applied to the fields of input and output information.
The parameters of the data structure typically define what information to expect ...
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