e-Commerce Gate Way is the one of the Module in Oracle Apps. EDI (Electronic Data Internchange) is way of exhchanging the Business documents like Sales Order Invoice PO etc. between two business entities in agreed standard format like ASCII X12 format. In oracle application business documents may be refered as 850POI(purchase order Inbound) 810INO(Invoice Outbound) etc..

There are several third party sources are available which may be use in mapping of several documents from Oracle Format to X12 and vice versa. Some of them like Sterling Commerce Kleinschmidt ....

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EDi - Electronic Data Interchange to send the data to another server/destination via EDI server. edi is a toll where in whenever the customer is sending the PO it gets saved in this toll again when the supplier after supplying the material will send an invoice through EDI wherein the EDI of the customer will match the PO with the invoice and the invoice will get processed automatically in case if it is not matching it will be in the error sheet