Transacting business often requires supplyingthe same information to more than one company or location. Ratherthan sending the data repeatedly you can send the data to Sterling B2B CollaborationNetwork onceand use the carbon copy service to duplicate all or part of the datafor other receivers. The instructions for producing a carbon copyfollow the basic structures for EDI. You can carbon copy data at theinterchange group or document (transaction set) level. Additionallycarbon copies can be generated for specified document types senderIDs receiver IDs or other segment-level information.

The carbon copy service signals Sterling B2B CollaborationNetwork tomake one or more copies of an interchange functional group or document. Sterling B2B CollaborationNetwork thensends the original document to the original receiver and the copiesto additional receivers.

You can use the carbon copy service to send copies of documentsinterchanges functional groups or mailslot contents. You can sendcarbon copies to:

• More than one business partner
• Different business divisions of the same company
• A business partner who wants to receive the same interchange bymultiple delivery methods

When using the carbon copy service consider that:

When you request the carbon copy service you must specify thecriteria that the data must meet to be copied:

Carbon copy is available in most countries. Although you can specifymultiple receivers for a carbon-copied document you can receive onlyone functional acknowledgment for each transaction. You must designatewhich receiver sends the functional acknowledgment. Typically theoriginal receiver sends the functional acknowledgment.