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AS2 EDI communication, possibly Amazon VendorCentral specific

I tried contacting Amazon support for this, but they have not replied since last week (unfortunately this is typical to not hear back for days, up to weeks). We currently do FTP for our EDI communication, but that is being discontinued at the end of this month, and we are trying to implement AS2, but we have more than one company internally, so as of now, we have 2 logins with Amazon, and each one has their own FTP in which we pull and push EDI data back and forth.

Each trading partner with AS2 requires an identifier certificate (I believe is what it is called), and it costs a decent bit of money for them, but I need to know if we need only one, or two of them considering that we have two FTP's (VendorCentral accounts) currently, but it is the same trading partner. If anyone knows anything about AS2 in general and could shed some light on this, I would be extremely appreciative!

Thanks!

Dan

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Sandy
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Ok, I realize this is an old post but since I've recently researched it for an article this may still help anyone else looking for this info.

You can think of AS2 like an email where the url is the domain name and the ID is the part before the @. AS2 requires:

  • a URL

  • a unique AS2 ID for that URL

The client certificate is used for security reasons but doesn't have to be unique per connection.

So you can stick to a single certificate for all your Amazon vendor central connections.

That being said, Amazon expects one connection per document type. This means you can't have purchase orders incoming through two different AS2 connections at the same time for example. So if your "sub-companies" are dealing with the same documents they will have to continue working with separate vendor central accounts.

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