Initialising Pacstream EDI in Bookmine

Before you can use PacStream EDI:

• You must be registered with Pacstream and have an account set up with them. This attracts an initial setup fee and a fixed monthly fee, paid to Pacstream.

• Have a current license from InfoMining to use Pacstream EDI within Bookmine. This is a fee payable to InfoMining quarterly or yearly.

• Have a current SAN (a 7 digit Supplier Address Number) which is used to uniquely identify purchase orders sent from you. To obtain a SAN go to https://www.enett2.com/ThorpeBowker/SAN/

Once you have your account and a license from InfoMining you can proceed to initialise EDI via Pacstream.

Working in Bookmine:

1. Go to the Main Switchboard and click the User Options command. A password is required. (The password is either the standard user confirmation password or an Admin password depending on how your Bookmine is configured).
2. Click on the PacStream EDI command
3. Click on the tab Configure your PacStream Ftp account
4. Fill in the details provided to you by PacStream to get access to the EDI drop box

     Fields required are the

       SAN

       HostAddress

       Remote folder

       Logon Name

       Password

5. After entering these values you should test the connection by clicking the Test FTP connection command. If the test does not work (A success message is displayed if successful) there is either something wrong with your Internet connection or the credentials provided or entered. Check the credentials are correct. In some cases a firewall setting on your computer or router may be preventing outgoing communications via FTP. Enable ftp traffic in your firewall - to test use any ftp client software and attempt to send a file to an external server (your web site or ISP can provide this). Contact your IT administrator to enable communication via FTP.

Once you have confirmed that you are communicating via FTP with PacStream you can configure which Suppliers' Purchase Orders in Bookmine will be sent to PacStream via EDI

Continuing from above under Main SWBD - User Options - PacStream Edi:

1. Click on the tab Manage PacStream Suppliers

2. Click Initialise Pacstream.  Follow the prompts. If a message warns you that this has already been carried out check to make sure your PacStream Suppliers have not already been configured before continuing. If you proceed any suppliers already configured will be reset.

3. You are now ready to configure the Suppliers that you wish to order from using Pacstream EDI. This process links the Pacstream supplier with the corresponding supplier in your records. In most cases you will refer to the suppliers with the same name as used by PacStream but this is not always the case. There may be significant or subtle differences in the names uses. It is up to each user to match the suppliers correctly.

4. Once you have finished this configuration process you are ready to send purchase orders via PacStream.

Once configured your are provided with an extra option in the Purchase Order detailed interface that enables you to send the order via Pacstream when you invoke the Send Order command.