Electronic Business to Business (EB2B) Standards

Conexxus offers a broad depth of standards and specifications for the convenience store and retail fuels industry.  These standards improve profitability by reducing the cost of IT ownership as well as improve competitiveness.  Conexxus members at the Silver or Gold levels enjoy access to the full documentation and schemas for each standard.  This page provides information about the Electronic Business to Business Committee Standards.  Click here to view available standards for other Conexxus Committees.

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Lottery

Automating data exchange for common business processes creates business efficiency by eliminating time spent on paperwork and fixing errors from manually entered data. This in turn allows more time for store personnel to spend on store operation and management, as well as interaction with customers. Automation can be achieved through electronic document exchange of lottery accounting data. The Conexxus Lottery Interface supports data exchange related to lottery by providing information for inventory, daily activity, and invoicing.

NAXML schemas provide transmission information (e.g., ID, date, time of transmission, and status), as well as information regarding the parties involved in the file exchange (e.g., supplier and buyer). The schemas also provide support for reporting elements specific to each document type.  For example, inventory documents include the game type and description, retail value, pack details, and pack ticket count. When and how documents are exchanged and how data is populated in the documents must be agreed upon between the retailer and supplier before document exchange occurs. 

Motor Fuel Interface

Automating data exchange for common business processes creates business efficiency by eliminating time spent on paperwork and fixing errors from manually entered data. This in turn allows more time for store personnel to spend on store operation and management, as well as interaction with customers. Automation can be achieved through electronic document exchange of fuel pricing, bills of lading, fuel delivery, and fuel invoicing. The Conexxus Motor Fuels specification supports data exchange related to motor fuel purchasing by the retailer by providing with information for the bill of lading, fuel pricing, delivery, invoicing, and purchase orders.

NAXML schemas provide transmission information (e.g., ID, date, time of transmission, and status), as well as information regarding the parties involved in the file exchange (e.g., supplier and buyer). The schemas also provide support for reporting elements specific to each document type.  For example, a bill of lading document includes the invoice number, purchase order number, and start and end load time and date. When and how documents are exchanged and how data is populated in the documents must be agreed upon between the retailer and supplier before document exchange occurs. 

Retail Merchandise

Automating data exchange for common business processes creates business efficiency by eliminating time spent on paperwork and fixing errors from manually entered data. This in turn allows more time for store personnel to spend on store operation and management, as well as interaction with customers. Automation can be achieved through electronic document exchange of invoices, payment advice, item/price files, item/promo files, predelivery notices, and purchase orders.

While EDI (X12) has become synonymous with electronic file exchange, the complexities and infrastructure required to implement it is a barrier to many in the c-store and retail fuels environment.  As an alternative, the Conexxus EB2B Retail Merchandise Committee created “NAXML.”  Relying on XML (a coding language used to create schema that is both human and machine readable), NAXML is a more user friendly and readable format than EDI. In addition, implementers of NAXML have greater flexibility and reduced infrastructure needs.

NAXML schemas provide transmission information (e.g., ID, date, time of transmission, and status), as well as information regarding the parties involved in the file exchange (e.g., supplier and buyer). The schemas also provide support for reporting elements specific to each document type.  For example, an invoice document includes the invoice number, invoice date, invoice details such as line items with identifications, descriptions, quantity, price, taxes, allowances, invoice totals, payment terms, and other information normally found on a paper invoice.  When and how documents are exchanged and how data is populated in the documents must be agreed upon between the retailer and supplier before document exchange occurs. 

 

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