About Scenarios

Description

An Orderful scenario describes the back-and-forth exchange of one or more test transactions, including their expected contents, that you and your trading partner must successfully complete before you begin to exchange production data.

For example, if you are a seller and your trading partner is a buyer, a typical scenario might look like this:

• my trading partner sends an 850 Purchase Order
• my organization responds with an 855 Purchase Order Acknowledgment
• my organization sends an 856 Ship Notice/Manifest
• my organization sends an 810 Invoice

NOTE: While the Orderful app now gives you the ability to define & save scenarios, at the present moment they cannot be used for actual testing. This next feature is currently in the final stages of development and will be released very shortly.

Assigning Scenario Checklists

Once you create and publish a scenario, you will soon be able to assign that scenario to one of your and your trading partners' EDI accounts. This will generate a scenario checklist, the steps of which you or your trading partner can mark as 'completed' when a transaction having the expected content is received. When all steps of that checklist are complete, you'll be ready to start trading production data.

Scenario Requirements

A scenario can contain one or more steps.

Single-step Scenarios

The simplest scenarios will have only a single step, such as 'My trading partner sends me an 832 Price/Sales Catalog'. Single-step scenarios can contain any transaction type that Orderful supports.

Multiple-step Scenarios

More often than not though, a scenario will have multiple steps to test a series of transactions. In that case, the transactions must follow a sequence typical to a trading relationship, such as in the example above where a purchase order is followed by a PO acknowledgment, a ship notice and finally an invoice.

By enforcing this sequence, Orderful is able to automatically determine which transactions correspond to each step in the scenario. Orderful currently supports multiple-step scenarios covering transaction types typically exchanged in supply chain, warehousing and transportation trading relationships.

When creating a multiple-step scenario, you might see a warning that Orderful will have to add support for your scenario step. This means that you have selected a transaction type & sender that falls outside of the typical sequence. In that case, the step will not be added to your scenario, but you will be presented with the option of sending a support request to Orderful. Once we receive that support request, we'll reach out to you directly to discuss your requirements and to determine how we might add support for your needed scenario step.