EDI

Confirmation to the buyer that the supplier will be filling the purchase order as requested.

Part of an EDI address.

A program of activity to electronically enable a group of business partners to send and receive documents in agreed formats.

The party to whom the EDI message or transaction set is transmitted.

A transaction set that includes the quantity, description and condition of the product received.

A mechanism whereby relevant repository items, and metadata about them, can be registered so that a pointer to their location, and all their metadata, can be retrieved as a result of a query.

A location or set of distributed locations which hold the data (such as that associated with a product), pointed at by a registry, and from where the data can be retrieved.

Radio Frequency Identification. A technology that allows data held on a microchip to be broadcast using a wireless transmitter. Data from the RFID chip can be read even when the chip is not in line of sight.

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see SFTP.

A part of an EDI message or transaction set, made up of a number of related data elements separated by a delimiter, conveying a part of the business transaction being made.

A code that uniquely identifies each segment as specified in a segment directory.

Marks the end of a variable-length segment.

The schematic that depicts the format and composition of a segment.

A listing of the segments unique to the specific system of EDI Standards being used, and usually part of the data dictionary.

The order of occurrence of segments within a transaction set.

A predefined code that identifies the segment.

A name that identifies the segment.

A data element that gives the segment a specific meaning.

Distinct attributes of a segment, including structure and content.

A composite data element, in which the first component data element contains a code that uniquely identifies a segment as specified in the relevant segment directory. Additional component data elements can be conditionally used to indicate the hierarchical level and nesting relationship in a message and the incidence of a segment’s repetition [EDIFACT].

A special character that indicates the end of a segment

Customers can generate the invoice themselves and remit payment electronically via EDI.

The party in a business transaction who sells goods or services to a buyer for good and valuable consideration.

The party who transmits the EDI messages.

A portion of a standard that indicates the possible segments, their sequence, and their attributes for each area of a transaction set.

Simple File Transfer Protocol. A network protocol that provides file transfer and manipulation functionality over any reliable data stream. It is typically used with the SSH-2 protocol to provide secure file transfer. (See also SSH).

An EDI transaction sent by the shipper of material to the receiver advising that the shipment has been sent, and providing details such as manifest, PO number, estimated time of arrival, carrier, etc.

A data element containing a single value.

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The protocol that is most commonly used for transferring email between servers over the internet.