EDI

This section encompasses everything that has to do with EDI.

EDI General Information

EDI VAN (Value Added Network) Provider is a communications service that is the vehicle for the exchange of EDI documents between trading partners. The VAN is the home of the EDI trading partner’s electronic mailbox, which is identified by a unique EDI ID that serves as the trading partner’s EDI address. Interconnects among VANs allow for the exchange of EDI documents between EDI trading partners whose mailboxes reside on different VANs. Your qualifier and EDI ID are two numbers that together, uniquely identify your company.

Explanation of general EDI qualifier and ID’s:

  • Duns number - the Qualifier is ‘01’ and the ID is the Duns number
  • Phone number - the Qualifier is ‘12’ and the ID is the Phone number excluding the ‘-‘
  • Mutually agreed code - the Qualifier is ‘ZZ’ and the ID is the mutually agreed code

EDI Document Standards X12 document types:

  • 810 - Invoice
  • 824 - Application Advice
  • 830 - Planning Schedule
  • 856 - Ship Notice (ASN)
  • 862 - Shipping Schedule
  • 997 - Acknowledgement

EDIFACT document types:

  • DELFOR - Planning Schedule
  • DELJIT - Shipping Schedule
  • DESADV - Ship Notice (ASN)
  • APERAK - Application error and acknowledgement