About the Timber & Hardware Exchange
The T&HE consist of following components:
The Pacific Exchanger client software communicates that via the Internet with the central communications module. It passes the documents the mailbox system (each trading partner has their own mailbox). The message switching module transfers documents to the recipient trading partner's mailbox.
Then there is a translator module that translates documents from one format to another, this is similar to translating from one language to another.
There is also data management system used for document tracking, that gives trading partners visibility of their documents statuses.
And lastly there is Web Forms, a method of electronic trading for smaller partners, or for partners who have issues with integrating documents into their systems (as they are upgrading their business system for example). Web forms allow someone to receive and create documents via a secure Web environment, without their trading partners needing to know that they are not fully integrated.
Pacific Exchanger is a client software, provided free of charge to trading partners, that transfers business documents securely between the trading partner and the exchange. This example shows a log of documents being transferred.
Pacific Exchanger can also be setup to run at pre-defined times as a scheduler. In the example shown bove, Pacific Exchanger will run from 12 AM to 12 PM and will connect every 5 minutes to send and receive documents.
Each time Pacific Exchanger is started it performs a self diagnostics to ensure that documents can be securely transferred to the exchange. If any diagnostic fails then a green tick will be replaced by a red X. You can then try and figure out for your self what went wrong or call our help desk.