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EDI4STEEL

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands • 5 Employees
Machinery

EDI4STEEL is a secure communication network connecting ERP systems of steel producers, wholesalers, service centres and users. For this purpose, a secure platform with communication standards of the European Union has been developed. These standards have recently been approved by ISO.The messages use the standards of the Smart Connected Supplier Network developed by TNO. EDI4STEEL also makes recommendations for a standardised workflow of data exchange between the various ERP systems.Standardized messagesEDI4STEEL, in cooperation with TNO, developed standard messages for purchase order, despatch advice, invoice and product certificate to support the steel industry. These messages were compiled on the basis of the world standard Universal Business Language (UBL), which in turn is based on XML technology.A secure networkEDI4STEEL uses the European Commission's eDelivery Building Block solution for secure and reliable electronic document exchange. Messages can be sent and received from the participants' ERP systems via an Access Point (AP) over the EDI4STEEL network. EDI4Steel uses the Service Metadata Publisher (SMP) and the Service Metadata Locator (SML) of the European Commission as the address book of the participants. These enable the AP's to dynamically identify the IP addresses of the AP's where the messages are to be delivered.GovernanceThe EDI4STEEL network is managed by the independent foundation EDI4STEEL. The foundation determines the further roll-out and development of the network. EDI4Steel Support supports the foundation in the field of software, messages and technology so that the availability and continuity of the network is guaranteed.Easy to joinEDI4STEEL provides the following solutions for the connection between an EDI4STEEL Access Point and ERP systems:• Comprehensive online documentation of the communication and infrastructure.• A secure SFTP server.• Conversion tool with which messages can be be translated from XML to IDocs (SAP)