Today you have an existing connection to SKF through Trusted Link. This in turn is communicated via SIM to SKF.

Tomorrow the connection to Trusted Link will be decommissioned. Instead, a new connection will be established directly to SIM. The same X12 mapping specification used today with Trusted Link will continue to work tomorrow with SIM.

1. As the supplier to SKF, you will be contacted by your main contact from Apper for this implementation. Please be prepared to provide your business contact person and a technical EDI contact person assigned for this implementation.
2. Review specification of each message type. It is available for download below.
3. We setup direct communication using SFTP for data transmission for both test and production.
4. We perform full cycle testing, in test environment, of all 5 message types in scope.
5. Go live upon confirmation from both ends (SKF and supplier)
6. Hyper care of first full cycle exchanged in production
7. Implementation closure

Before June 30th
– Verified SFTP communication with Apper for both test and production
– Reviewed SKF specification and have the mapping ready to initiate with testing

Before August 30^th
– Completed Acceptance testing and confirmation to go live

An approach where products are not built until a confirmed order for products is received. There are 5 different message types exchange between the two partners to secure the communication from procure to invoice.