Glossary

On October 30, 2008. By Fran, under Tech Talk.

ASN (Advanced Shipping Notice): Also known as the 856 document. This provides the retailer with advanced information about pending product shipments.

AS2: A specification for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) between businesses using the internet web page protocol & the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). AS2 was created by EDI over the Internet (EDIINT) a working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that develops secure & reliable business communications standards.

B2B (Business to Business): When one business communicates with or sells to another business.

Compliance Settings: Comparison of EDI data being sent or received with the applicable EDI standard. Normally part of the EDI translation process.

Compliance Checking: A checking process that is used to ensure that a transmission complies with ASNI X12 syntax rules.

Data Mapping: Provides significant enhancement & transformation of data from multiple sources to multiple target formats.

EDI (Electronic Data Interchange): The computer to computer transfer of business transactions using standard, industry accepted message formats.

Integration: The process of making one application compatible with another application.

Functional Acknowledgment: An EDI transaction sent to acknowledge the receipt of a prior transaction set.

Integrated EDI: An approach to EDI implementation requiring no human involvement in the computer to computer exchange of data.

Invoice: Also known as the 810 document. This is the request for payment from the purchaser for products or services rendered.

SKU (Stock Keeping Unit): Lowest level of identification of merchandise for inventory management. Within a particular style, this usually refers to the ability to identify a unique size or unique color.

Trading Partner: A customer or supplier or the partner with whom business is conducted using EDI

Third Party Network: A commercial service that allows people to transmit data to a computer and store it so it can be retrieved the party to whom it is addressed. This is also called an electronic mailbox.

UCC 128 Labels: Code 128 is a bar code standard that is used for several applications. Placed on shipments and refers to information contained in the ASN.

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