What document types does cXML support?
cXML v1.2 supports catalogue content and supplier descriptions, PunchOut (of a few varieties), Master Agreement, Purchase Order (create, edit and delete), Order Confirmation, Ship Notice, Invoice and various additional synchronization and integration transactions. • What do you mean by “PunchOut”? PunchOut is not a link to a web site. PunchOut is an easy-to-implement protocol for interactive sessions managed across the Internet. PunchOut is a communication from one application to another, achieved through a dialog of real-time, synchronous cXML messages, which support user interaction at a remote site. It is the best way to manage user sessions distributed across web applications. This protocol is most commonly used today in the form of Procurement PunchOut, which specifically supports interactions between a procurement application and a supplier’s eCommerce web site and possibly includes an intermediary for authentication and version matching. Procurement PunchOut describes the “tradi
