KITS (Kingfisher) EDI Mapping Guides
An EDI Purchase Order is sent from the buyer to the seller under agreed conditions. This blog post provides more mapping guidelines for the purchase orders generated by the buyers for their vendors.
- The segments are presented in the sequence in which they appear in the message.
- The segment or segment group tag consists of
- Segment Name;
- Segment code;
- Status;
- maximum field lengths;
- maximum number of repeats of the segment/element and the details/descriptions to provide extra required information.
Descriptions which has been flagged as Not Required, highlights the elements/segment which is not used in KITS company. There is various status of Data elements as per EANCOM standard, but the company uses only three statuses as (M)andatory / (C)onditional / (R)equired :
- M (Mandatory) – Code Indicator defines that the segment/element must be used.
- C (Conditional) Code Indicator defines that the segment/element is optional. It can or cannot be used by the Vendors as per their own requirements.
- R (Required) Code indicator defines that the segment /element is conditional as per the EDIFACT message standards, but the message information is mandatory only for the company.
Interchange structure and service segments
- The interchange structure in an EDIFACT transmission is organized in several grouping levels. The service segments are the envelope of the groups.
- The first service segment possible in an interchange is the ‘UNA’ segment which is used to define the separators being used in the interchange.
- The second service segment, “UNB”, indicates the beginning of the interchange.
- The last service segment, “UNH”, indicates the beginning of a given message.
- To each beginning service segment corresponds an ending service segment (note, UNA is not a beginning segment).
- Service string advice: UNA
- Interchange envelope: UNB …. UNZ
- Message envelope: UNH …. UNT
A segment consists of:
- A segment tag: identifies the segment type
- Data element separators
- Component Data elements
- A segment terminator
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