Você está na página 1de 9

EDI STANDARDS

In EDI, all software, hardware and


network must work together so that
the information flows from one source
to another. The advantages of
standardization are numerous. The
standardization is expected to
promote “interoperability” between
EDI implementations.
The two major EDI standards are 1)
American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) X.12 Committee and the
United Nations EDI for Administration,
Commerce, and Trade (EDIFACT)
standards for international usage.
EDI STANDARDS
ANSI X.12

• The ANSI chartered the Accredited Standards


Committee in 1979 to research and develop
standards for business documents. The
X.12 committee develops standards to
facilitate EDI relating to such business
transactions, order placement and
processing; shipping and receiving;
invoicing, payment, and cash application
processing for products and services. The
X.12 transaction sets generally map a
traditional paper document to an electronic
format that move easily over
telecommunication networks. Each
transaction format includes many data
segments needed for the business function
as well as instructive information to ensure
that the telecommunication system routes
EDI STANDARDS

Examples of ANSI ASC X.12 transaction


includes
• Vendor Registration -form no. 838
• Request for Quotation – form no 840
• Response to request for quotation – form no.
843
• Purchase order or Delivery order – form
No.850
• Purchase order acknowledgement – form no.
855
• Functional acknowledgement – form no.997
• These X.12 transactions are transmitted to
the trading partner through either X400 e-
mail protocol or the Multipurpose Internet
EDI STANDARDS
EDIFACT

• EDIFACT standard has been developed by


the United Nations and was based on
TRADECOMS, developed by the UK
Department of Customs and Excise with
the assistance of SITPRO (the British
Simplification of Trade Procedures Board).
It was further developed by the United
Nations Economic Commission for Europe-
Working Party (Four) on Facilitation of
International Trade Procedures. EDIFACT
is becoming widely accepted as the
foremost international EDI standard.
EDIFACT and ANSI are working towards
EDI STANDARDS
EDI Standard Selection:

• As EDI became widely used in industries, several


sets of industry-specific EDI message standards
based on ANZSI X.12 were created for
intercompany transactions. For example, VICs
for pharmaceuticals, UCS for food and groceries
and so on. Most industry-specific standards
have committed to aligning themselves with
X.12 which consists of a number of underlying
standards a wide range of business
requirements. As most EDI information
exchanges are domestic and X.12 is more
widely used than EDIFACT in the US, US
companies doing business overseas must
subscribe to EDIFACT. Although EDIFACT is
similar to ASC X.12 in both purpose and
approach, sufficient technical differences exist
that may inhibit interoperability. As global
trade expands, most US companies will require
EDI STANDARDS

• Fortunately, an awareness of
commerce’s international nature
and the desirability of a single EDI
standard have resulted in a
decision by the ASC X.12
committee to align its standard
with EDIFACT by 1997 and
however, the implementation plan
is not final
EDI STANDARDS

Structure of EDI Transaction


• EDIstandards are very broad and general


because they have to meet the needs of
all businesses. EDI messages, however,
share a common structure.
• Transaction setis equivalent to a business
document, such as purchase order. Each
transaction set is made up of data
segments.
• Data segments are logical groups of data
elements that together convey
information, such as invoice terms,
shipping information, or purchase order
line.
• Data elements are individual fields, such
EDI STANDARDS

• The concept and theory of EDI has


evolved from the transmission of
data in “fixed-length” proprietary
formats to the transmission of data
in “variable length” standard
formats. Without these standard
formats, industry utilization of
computer-to-computer
communication technology would
be encumbered by the use of
different formats and data contents
EDI STANDARDS

• ANSI standards require each element to


have a very specific name, such as
order date or invoice date, whereas
EDIFACT standards allow generic or
multiuse elements such as date. In
this case, a qualifier such as order or
invoice accompanies the generic
element identifying what the date
relates to. EDIFACT has fewer data
elements and segments and only one
beginning segment (header), but it
has more composite ( a group of two
or more data elements that give
meaning to another data element,

Você também pode gostar