Common EDI Transactions Within The Retail Industry

Most common EDI Transactions within the retail industry
ANSI-X12	EDIFACT	Transaction Name	Transaction Description
212		Motor Carrier Delivery Trailer Manifest	This transaction set can be used to allow motor carriers to provide consignees or other interested parties with the contents of a trailer, containing multiple shipments, that has been tendered for delivery. It is not to be used to provide the recipient with data relative to a full truckload shipment.
214		Transportation Carrier Shipment Status Message	This transaction set can be used by a transportation carrier to provide shippers, consignees, and their agents with the status of shipments in terms of dates, times, locations, route, identifying numbers, and conveyance.
810	INVOIC	Invoice	The transaction set can be used to provide for customary and established business and industry practice relative to the billing for goods and services provided.
812	CREADV DEBADV	Credit/Debit Adjustment	The transaction set can be used to notify a trading partner of an adjustment or billback and may be used to request an adjustment or billback. It identifies and contains the details and amounts covering exceptions, adjustments, credits, or debits for goods or services.Often has variations for LTL (less than truck load, FTL (full truck load) and SP (small package).
820	REMADV	Payment Order/Remittance Advice	The transaction set can be used to make a payment, send a remittance advice, or make a payment and send a remittance advice. This transaction set can be an order to a financial institution to make a payment to a payee. It can also be a remittance advice identifying the detail needed to perform cash application to the payee’s accounts receivable system. The remittance advice can go directly from payer to payee, through a financial institution, or through a third party agent.
824		Application Advice	Used to notify trading partner of transaction errors.
846	INVRPT	Inventory Inquiry/Advice	Used to notify a trading partner of on hand inventory.
850	ORDERS	Purchase Order	The transaction set can be used to provide for customary and established business and industry practice relative to the placement of purchase orders for goods and services.
852		Product Activity Data	The transaction set can be used to advise a trading partner of inventory, sales, and other product activity information.
855	ORDRSP	Purchase Order Acknowledgement	The transaction set can be used to provide for customary and established business and industry practice relative to a seller’s acknowledgment of a buyer’s purchase order.
856	DESADV	Advanced Ship Notice	The transaction set can be used to list the contents of a shipment of goods as well as additional information relating to the shipment, such as order information, product description, physical characteristics, type of packaging, marking, carrier information, and configuration of goods within the transportation equipment. The transaction set enables the sender to describe the contents and configuration of a shipment in various levels of detail and provides an ordered flexibility to convey information.
860	ORDERCHG	Purchase Order Change Request	This transaction can be used: (1) by a buyer to request a change to a previously submitted purchase order or (2) by a buyer to confirm acceptance of a purchase order change initiated by the seller or by mutual agreement of the two parties.
864		Text Message	The transaction set’s purpose is to provide communication to the recipient in some human-readable form. The recipient’s network will dictate what capabilities are available for delivery of the information.

Oliver Schmid

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