EDI in linux

[Ben Duncan]

Yes, Currently in the US of A, the EDI standards are ANSI X12 Version 
4.010. It gets WILLY WILLY deep
silly wabbit, depending on the usage and your trading partner. There 
are older version's besides, the 4.x, and some
still use those.

As far as in detail of what it is, you are simply creating "packets". 
  The top being called a transaction set,
because all information is applicable to THAT transaction. Inside of 
that, are the segments and then elements
inside the segments. It helps to think of EDI more as "one way" 
database that has a design, quite similair
to the TCP/IP packets (This is a close as I can come to describing it, 
for NuBies).

The MOST commonly used are:

  Transaction Set 810 - Invoices
                             855 - Order Acknowledgement
                             850 - Purchase Order
                             856 - Advance Ship Notice (This is a 
complex SOB)
                             997 - Functional Acknowledgement (set to 
say I got ur message).

Most work involves mapping information to and from these transaction sets.

26 Years in the Accounting Application side has taught me a lot. Not 
to mention 5 Years
working in a MainFrame environment for a Fortune 500 retailer.

I can go deeper, if any one wants. But suffice it to say, there are a 
ton of WinSlut based products to do this
but I have heard of non for Linux.

As far as XML goes, for the stuff that I am working on right now, that 
involves Mack, Freightliner, White/GMC,
GMC Auto, PaccAir ( A truck manufacture Gonglomerant), non have any 
immedita plans to go XML.

Brad De Vries wrote:
> Kevin, EDI is how companies send data back and forth. 
> Rather than using faxes, mail or phone calls, they
> electronically package a sales order, purchase order,
> shipment notification, invoice, etc. and send it to a
> supplier or customer.  There are many industries that
> rely on it heavily, even on a minute by minute basis,
> such as automotive, consumer products, industrial,
> etc.
> 

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