EDI Transaction Organizational Relationships (816) Usage
The EDI Organizational Relationships (816) transaction is used within Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards to communicate hierarchical information about organizational relationships. This particular transaction set is typically used to describe the relationships between different entities within an organization or across different organizations.
The Organizational Relationships (816) transaction is used in three ways:
- To convey location address information for a company.
- Maintain location address information through periodic updates.
- Convey location relationships, (e.g., the relationship between a buying location and its related bill to, ship to and mark for locations).
The use of this transaction eliminates the need to send address information on purchase orders and other documents.
Organizational Relationships (816) Benefits
- Eliminates the need to send address information on purchase orders and other documents
- Provides advance notification to the supplier of changes in location information
- Eliminates the manual process of sending updates to suppliers, and ensures updates reach supplier on a timely basis
- Promotes the use of code values for location identification within other EDI documents, thus increasing the accuracy and usability of those documents.
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