Another Energy System

AGRIS has the ability to communicate with Another Energy System. 

This interface was designed to take lightweight fuel transactions and interface to AGRIS.  It provides your team the ability to use another companies fuel dispatching system and effectivley have near real time integration for the following types of transactions.

• Stock Additions
• Bookings
• Paid Bookings (Prepays)
• Invoices  

Further details of what this interface can do and its configuration is listed below.  If your business has a unique requirement to interface to Another's functionality or if you use a different fuel system that needs to communicate near real time with AGRIS please contact your account manager for how the same technology can be used for your business.

Process and Approach Requirements

1. Interface runs automatically to capture transactions ready to process. 
2. Provides links to original document numbers from the originating system.
3. If a translation error occurs, AGRIS will notify the employee via email notification of the error. 
4. If a transaction errors it is "parked" and other transactions will process successfully. 

Setup

1. Ensure you have updated your AGRIS extended options to enable the
   "Another Energy System" interface.
2. Under the Dataset Maintenance for the dataset enable the extended option for "Another Energy System"
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3. Change the user security to enable access for the new CFT option  "Another Energy System"
4. You can now navigate to the CFT option.
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5. Select Configuration from the menu.
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6. Now configure the following.
   1. The folder where the transactions will originate from
   2. The folder to store the backups of the original transactions prior to conversion 
      1. (NOTE: Transactions that are recorded to the Backup Folder are not automatically deleted - contact your I.T. Department to discuss the best retention policy and backup requirements for your business) 
   3. The name of the AGRIS import routine planed to used for the final import processing step. 
      1. (NOTE: It is highly recommended to create a unique import routine for interfacing with "Another Energy System".)
   4. Email Address or Group Email Address planned to notify if a transaction failure occurs.
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7. Review and enable the transaction types planned to interface. 
   
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8. Identify AGRIS product to use as line item on stock addition freight voucher.
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9. Cross reference energy system's miscellaneous charge products to AGRIS products.  These products are used as line item entries on stock addition miscellaneous charge vouchers. 

Message formats:

How do I know that I have the correct format for interfacing with ANES? 

Another Energy System inbound files will use the naming convention ANENS_ORG_YYYYY_ZZZZZ_<guid>.xml where

• ANENS = five character integration acronym
• ORG = static value
• YYYYY = five character document type.  Values are INVCE = invoice, ARPAY = payment, ARBKG = booking, and STOCK = purchase invoice
• ZZZZZ = variable length Agvance document reference
• <guid> = unique 36 character guid
• .xml = file extension

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