Enterprise Resource Planning, Supply Chain Management, Accounting and other eBusiness systems provide specific entries in the master data for specific identifier types.
In these systems data, files or documents, as we are used to call them in the paper world, are received as input or sent as output to other applications. After receiving, e.g. within the order-to-invoice cycle, this data is processed by the application. In order to interpret this data properly, business identifiers play their role.
In the paper world documents are put into envelopes which hold information concerning sender and recipient. Accordingly in the electronic world the documents are enclosed within electronic envelopes. These envelopes or "messages" contain information about the sender and the recipient. Such information is also based on unique business identifiers.
Therefore, unique identifiers are an essential element of interoperability of business applications.
Specific examples of the implementation of unique business identifiers in electronic documents and in their envelopes in order to be processed automatically are available:
Please visit the page dedicated to the "document examples" to see specific examples of the implementation of unique business identifiers in electronic documents that can be processed automatically.
Please visit the page dedicated to the "message examples" to see specific examples of the implementation of unique business identifiers in electronic message envelopes that can be exchanged by automated systems.
