EDI
Standard-format document exchange with large customers
5 articles
EDI: what works today and what does not
X12 file exchange is halfway there. What you can promise a customer, what you cannot, how a trading partner is set up, how to test it, and what happens when a file cannot be processed.
Sending an EDI file: the request, the response and the errors
How an X12 file is delivered to the warehouse, what the service answers in each case, how resends are recognized and what to do about each error.
Inbound notices: 943 and 856
Which segments are read from an inbound notice, which advance ship notice field each one goes to, what is ignored, a full example, and why a typical 856 is set aside today.
Shipping orders: 940
What is read from a 940, which shipment is created, how stock is reserved, why the usual 940 with W01 lines is set aside today and how to test it before going live.
The shipping advice we send back: 945
When the 945 is generated, what it carries segment by segment, what it lacks today for the partner to match it to their order, and how it reaches them.