Trading Partner Agreement

[rrmalgi]

Hi,

I am working on using TPM for B2B integration also using the standard iFlow package.

I went through the below documentation from and I am not clear about difference between

Identifier and Identifier as Trading Partner under My Company Details &

Identifier and Identifier as Company under Trading Partner Details

https://help.sap.com/docs/CLOUD_INTEGRATION/9e51bec2356e4664b6d5fd1a336a9e12/9bd43c9ae064493286f3215...

I understand we need to maintain, lets say, AS2 ID of the company and trading partner once under each section.

If I create "Identifier as Trading Partner" under My Company Details, this identifier gets added in "My Company" Trading Partner Profile and vice-versa. So I do not really understand the overall purpose and what to maintain. Can someone please clarify?

Best Regards

[Souragopalsethy]

Hi Rajashekhar,
Hopefully, this blog will answer all your questions.

[rrmalgi]

Thanks @souragopal_j46

I did all my configurations following the same before posting my query here. Unforutnately it does not answer

[sranjitha_sathiavathy]

Hello rrmalgi,

Kindly go through this chapter: Understanding Identifiers in Agreement | SAP Help Portal

This should help you understand Identifiers better.

More details about how these values are fetched in a payload will be added soon.

Regards,

Ranjitha S

[philippeaddor]

Rajashekhar,

In short: One is the internal identification, the other one the external one. Let me give you a simple example: The Internal ID can be a logical system ID (LS) of your company's SAP system. However, for your trading partner, this ID is meaningsless. Instead, facing your trading partner your company identifies itself with a Comm ID or similar identifier number. So that's why your "company as trading partner" identifier is the ASC x12 Comm ID. On the other side, your trading partner's ID from your point of view is the ASC X12 ID, but for your SAP sytem that would be meaningless. Instead, the "identifier as company" is usually the customer (KU) or supplier number (LF) of the trading partner. Does this make it clearer?

Philippe

[rrmalgi]

Thanks Philippe for the explanation