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A Quick Introduction to EDI

A Quick Introduction to EDI. Created 3/5/2002 American Electric Power. What Is EDI?. E lectronic D ata I nterchange An internationally recognized standard for formatting and exchanging information Simple text files that use delimiter characters to separate the fields and records.

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A Quick Introduction to EDI

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  1. A Quick Introduction to EDI Created 3/5/2002 American Electric Power

  2. What Is EDI? • ElectronicDataInterchange • An internationally recognized standard for formatting and exchanging information • Simple text files that use delimiter characters to separate the fields and records

  3. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) continues to define and revise the standards and versions which valid EDI data must conform to…

  4. An example of raw EDI data ISA*00* *00* *01*026007906 *01*006979868 *020124*0650*U*00401*000000590*1*P*~ GS*IN*026007906*006979868*20020124*0650*590*X*004010 ST*810*5900001 BIG*20020123*367498**PX02-0000000081**00*DI N1*RE*Airgas-Mid America*1*026007906 N3*PO BOX 1117 N4*Bowling Green*KY*421021117 ITD*08**0**0**30*00**00**Net 30 Days IT1*001*24*CF*40.1953************VP*AC 5 M02 PID*F****ACETYLENE SIZE 5 TDS*97749*00*00*00 CAD*****OUR TRUCK;Y SAC*C*C040***850*******06 SE*12*5900001 GE*1*590 IEA*1*000000590

  5. ISA GS ST Data SE GE IEA EDI transactions are surrounded by 6 envelope segments. These segments contain important routing information, such as ids, version, and transaction type. ISA/IEA – Interchange Envelope Contains an entire transmission GS/GE – Group Envelope Contains one group of similar transactions (e.g., multiple purchase orders) ST/SE – Transaction Set Envelope Contains data that describes one single transaction (e.g., one pay order) Envelope Segments

  6. Reading a segment of data

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