This "How to" should provide you with the necessary steps to implement a working integration with Southeastern Freight Lines from scratch using Babelway.

Preferred Protocols and Message Formats. Southeastern Freight Lines uses CLEO for all their EDI. They support X12 messages sent through AS2, sFTP, or VAN (in that order of preference).

Contact and Resource information. 

Setting up your connection

You can set up a number of connections with Southeastern Freight Lines since they support FTP, AS2 and VAN. We discourage the use of VAN as it involves additional costs and is the least straightforward setup. We will describe the setup using an AS2 connection which is the most secure protocol. Your channel will look something like this:

Once you have indicated to Southeastern Freight Lines that you will be integrating using AS2 they will expect you to share your AS2 information. In order to provide this, you can begin by creating a dummy AS2 gateway in:

Download the AS2 specifications ZIP in the properties tab of your newly created gateway. It contains all you will need to provide Southeastern Freight Lines.

You will need to receive from Southeastern Freight Lines the following information to complete your configuration:

You will use this information to create your gateway out (note that Southeastern Freight Lines requires you use SHA1 encryption - make sure to update it in the properties tab of your gateway):

And complete your gateway in:

Configuring your messages

You may wish to send or receive 997 functional acknowledgements for outgoing messages. If this is the case, read up Babelway's 997 implementation: