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Sterling Supply Chain Business Network

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Allow duplicate 997's to create SAP Status Message instead of failing

Today in SCBN, if a partner resends a 997or sends a new 997 for an already acknowledged document, and the 997 is used to generate a status message back to SAP, the process fails. SCBN should allow for SAP Status messages to be generated and sent t...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 0 Not under consideration

Enable SequenceGenerationKey usage in Router Action step

Currently, SequenceGenerationKey is only enabled to use with Basic transation action. It will be very helpful if we have access to use this with other actions too. ( Example : Enveloping, Router etc )
11 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 1 Not under consideration

Provide Select all button to export resources from Config Center UI

Currently there is no single button to select all of the resources to be exported ( for example, envelopes/maps. We need to select page by page which is limited to 100.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

Display pre-processor and post-processor map names on Inflight

This request is to add new feature to display pre and post-processor map names under In-flight event details section. This will benefit to both SCBN teams and client to identify the map names directly on Inflight and in case if they client needs a...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Document Tracking 2 Not under consideration

Display Partner Communication Details under Inflight Event Details Section

Currently, We can only see Partner protocol profile ID and communication POD Process ID details at the final delivery step ( Protocol Started Step in Inflight ) while delivering the outbound document to trading partner. Since these are Internal in...
11 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Communication Protocols 0 Future consideration

Mapping, Transformation from/to Excel

Excel is becoming the usability standard for structured data. On many occassions the CSV file can't be used and formatted in Excel, so natively Excel is being used to exchange data.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

PEPPOL AS2/AS4 flows: MDN should show up in Inflight Status event

In PEPPOL, why sending a file via AS2/AS4 to recipient AP via B2BAC. The Inflight entry is updated with Accepted event, but it doesn't show up the MDN copy which we received for the message. If MDN is visible, we can trace the errors in more faste...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network 1 Not under consideration

Deferred Processing based on number of documents in a file

e have implemented only the time based deferred processing on SCBN with the minimum timeframe of 180 sec and it seems Electrolux now wants us to implement the batching on the basis of the number of documents as well which is not possible to achiev...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 5 Not under consideration

Add option in Config Centre to export codelist data in Excel (xls) format.

Config Center has the option to export codelist data either in XML format or JSON format but not in XLS (Excel). We have request from high volume SCBN customers to provide the codelist data from CTE/Production in excel (xls format) as it would hel...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Onboarding 0 Functionality already exists

Include Interchange Recipient Internal ID option in the EDIFACT UNH envelope

In SPE02 while working on client Celestica we came across a limitation for the EDIFACT UNH envelope options. Celestica has two SAP systems A1 and GT. catering for plants of different regions involving multiple vendor codes. A1 SAP system is identi...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Onboarding 0 Future consideration