1. Electrolux System Integration Projects
General Rules and Guidelines for
EDI and Communication projects
Wolfgang Dvorak

2. Overview General Prerequisites Contacting System integration
Communication setup
Supplier messages

3. Prerequisites for a new project
Agreement between both business parties
Idea about scope of the project
Idea about the timeline
Agreement between partners to start a project
Contact partners given by all relevant parties
Electrolux Business reference person
Reference person on partner side
Technical application contacts (where needed)
3rd parties (where needed)
Official request by Electrolux business
System Integration acts only on request of Electrolux business.
We do not act on partner requests that are not confirmed.

4. Contacting System Integration
There are two mailboxes for contacts with System Integration.
Si Projects
- request new projects
- questions about existing projects when the project leader is not available
- change priorities and planned delivery dates of projects
Si Support
- ask for support of production problems
- queries about production message status
- Small service requests in production (e.g. resend)
SI project leader can be contacted every time

5. Communication setup
System Integration has defined ‚preferred‘ ways how external partners should connect with Electrolux. Our preferrence is following the sequence below. See the document ‚SI Connectivity guide‘ below for details. is not a preferred way of communication.
Preferred communication ways are:
AS2 (safe and secure transmission via internet, free of charge)
SFTP via SSH (secure FTP transmission via internet, free of charge)
X.25 (safe and secure call by call communication via phone lines, cheap)
X.400 (safe and secure transmission via WAN, less expensive)
GXS Mailbox (safe and secure transmission via WAN, expensive)

6. Supplier Messages Overview
Electrolux exchanges 3 standard messages with suppliers:
DELFOR D91.1 (outgoing Calloff and Forecast messages)
DESADV D91.1 (incoming delivery notification)
INVOIC D94B (incoming for goods- and service invoices)
For suppliers not capable of EDIFACT messages a flat file layout is defined as well. In future Electrolux will offer a Web solution for supplier connection (Web-EDI) that will also allow smaller suppliers without any technical infrastructure to join the electronic handling of messages.

7. Supplier Messages - Specifications
Format specifications/descriptions:
DELFOR DESADV
EDIFACT inhouse EDIFACT Inhouse
INVOICE
EDIFACT Inhouse