EDI Segments Usage – Mandatory/Optional EDI Segments Usage depends on partner specifications agreed during testing and setting stage. When business partners discuss the list of EDI documents they are going to use in their relationship, they set specific rules to electronic data interchange process. EDI specifications include the fields and the segments one trading partner will … Read More →
EDI Segment definition and example EDI Segment is a combination of the coherent elements or compound data grouped for representing useful information. For example, segment can contain information about product, its color, size, weight, volume etc. EDI Segment can be met in a document once or several times. In an EDI document, each section is described … Read More →
EDI Envelope: Digital Information Package EDI Envelope serves to deliver electronic transactions to a receiving company’s business system. EDI Envelope can include multiple business transaction sets in the same way multiple paper purchase order documents can be physically grouped, stuffed, and mailed together to a receiver. EDI Envelope is the digital package that contains EDI documentation … Read More →
EDI Interchange definition and structure EDI Interchange is a structured according to the X12 rules data set which companies sent to each other via EDI. EDI Interchange means more than a simple document – it is a documents package (though sometimes it can contain only one group with one document). We will use the term … Read More →