This document describes the Purchase Order Financing request process being a part of the payment process for financing the trading parties that lack the funds to pay their suppliers such as the customer and the supplier in the supply chain process

This document aims to define the Business Processes and the Business Transaction of the Purchase Order Financing in the supply chain finance. The Business Process is the detailed description of the way trading partners intend to play their respective roles, establish business relations and share responsibilities to interact efficiently with the support of their respective information systems.

Each Business Transaction is realized by an exchange of Business Documents (also called messages). The sequence in which these messages are used, composes a particular instance of a scenario and are presented as use cases in the document. The business documents are composed of Business Information Entities (BIE), which are preferably taken from libraries of reusable business information entities. The BIEs are out of scope of this document.

The purpose of the project is to develop a UN/CEFACT business standard guidelines for Purchase Order Financing (also known as pre-shipment finance) request.