The purpose of the Mediate & Orchestrate Business Partner Interactions is to ensure that transaction message structure and interactions conform to agreed or externally defined standards used by the enterprise and its Parties. Increasingly transactions with external parties (e.g. Parties using RosettaNet or Web Services standards) will need to conform to message and data formats defined by third parties or third Business Partner organizations. Based on the specific transaction type and involved external Business Partner, this conformance will require the identification of the necessary data formats to be sent externally, and conversion of externally received messages into the required internal enterprise formats. In addition, interactions with external parties may require that messages and transactions need to be undertaken with defined and agreed orchestration for message exchange. The actual agreement between the parties to use specific interaction standards is part of the Support Business Partner Interface Management and Support Selling L3s.<br/>
