Create partners for exchanging messages. A partner can be either a customer or a supplier. You create a customer in the New Customer wizard. You create a supplier in the New Supplier wizard.
You can create partners for the following types of messages:
•X12 and EDIFACT messages
•Custom messages
•Custom messages with Intelligent Structure Discovery
When you create a partner, you can define an inbound flow, an outbound flow, or both. The properties that you configure for the partner depend on the type of messages that you exchange with the partner and on the type of connections you use for the exchange.