Most common EDI transaction sets used by Third Party Logistics providers (3PL’s).

 

Most common EDI transaction sets used by Third Party Logistics providers (3PL’s).
ANSI X12 Transaction	Transaction Name	Transaction Description
940	Warehouse Shipping Order	Data contents of the Warehouse Shipping Order Transaction Set (940) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used to enable the depositor to advise a warehouse to make a shipment, confirm a shipment, or modify or cancel a previously transmitted shipping order.
943	Warehouse Stock Transfer Shipment Advice	Data contents of the Warehouse Stock Transfer Shipment Advice Transaction Set (943) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used by a depositor or an agent of the depositor to advise the recipient that a transfer shipment has been made. This transaction set provides a receiving location with detail information concerning product being shipped to that location.
944	Warehouse Stock Transfer Receipt Advice	Data contents of the Warehouse Stock Transfer Receipt Advice Transaction Set (944) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used by a receiving location to advise a depositor or an agent of the depositor that a transfer shipment has been received. This transaction set provides the depositor or the depositor's agent with detail information concerning product that has been received
945	Warehouse Shipping Advice	Data contents of the Warehouse Shipping Advice Transaction Set (945) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used by the warehouse to advise the depositor that shipment was made. It is used to reconcile order quantities with shipment quantities.
946	Delivery Information Message	The transaction set can be used by a receiving location to advise a depositor or an agent of the depositor that a transfer shipment has been received. This transaction set provides the depositor or the depositor's agent with detail information concerning product that has been received. If you need help supporting this EDI document, please visit our signup page. We will contact you shortly after the information is received. Thank you
947	Warehouse Inventory Adjustment Advice	Data contents of the Warehouse Inventory Adjustment Advice Transaction Set (947) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to inform a warehouse/depositor of a quantity or status change to inventory records. This transaction set provides detail information concerning the internal adjustments which occur between a warehouse and a depositor.
997	Functional Acknowledgement	Data contents of the Functional Acknowledgment Transaction Set (997) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to define the control structures for a set of acknowledgments to indicate the results of the syntactical analysis of the electronically encoded documents. The encoded documents are the transaction sets, which are grouped in functional groups, used in defining transactions for business data interchange. This standard does not cover the semantic meaning of the information encoded in the transaction sets.
856	Advance Ship Notice/Manifest	Data contents of the Advance Ship Notice/Manifest Transaction Set (856) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to list the contents of a shipment of goods as well as additional information relating to the shipment, such as order information, product description, physical characteristics, type of packaging, marking, carrier information, and configuration of goods within the transportation equipment. The transaction set enables the sender to describe the contents and configuration of a shipment in various levels of detail and provides an ordered flexibility to convey information. The sender of this transaction is the organization responsible for detailing and communicating the contents of a shipment, or shipments, to one or more receivers of the transaction set. The receiver of this transaction set can be any organization having an interest in the contents of a shipment or information about the contents of a shipment.

 For a full list of all EDI X12 documents supported bt B2BGateway.Net please visit http://www.b2bgateway.net/edidocs.asp

B2BGateway to demonstrate 200Connect EDI solution at Sage Evolve Business Partner Conference in Hinckley, United Kingdom.

 

 

B2BGateway will exhibit 200Connect a fully integrated, cloud-based EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) solution for Sage 200 users at this year’s Sage Evolve Business Partner Conference.
 
The Sage Evolve Business Partner Conference will take place on Tuesday, November 20^th, 2012 at the Hinkley Island Hotel, Hinckley, Leicestershire, United Kingdom. The Sage Evolve Conference is for Sage 200 Business Partners and an awards ceremony will take place afterwards at the National Space Centre, Leicester.
 

During the conference B2BGateway will demonstrate its 200Connect fully integrated EDI solution for Sage 200. According to Roger Leyden, Director of European Sales & Marketing at B2BGateway: “200Connect is an ideal, cost effective EDI solution for the Sage 200 user. Due to its cloud-based architecture and full integration capabilities, 200Connect automates the entire business document flow between the Sage 200 user and their trading partners.  There is no need to re-key data and this greatly reduces errors, frees up staff resources and hastens the users ‘order to payment’ cycle. Our 200Connect EDI solution is used in retail, wholesale distribution, logistics, automotive, manufacturing, government and healthcare industries.”

If you are attending the Sage Evolve Conference please drop by our stand and say hello to the B2BGateway team.

B2BGateway Hurricane Sandy Client Assistance

Although B2BGateway was able to weather Hurricane Sandy, we have found that many of our clients have not fared so well. Many clients located along the east coast of the United States are still without power. Most of these clients are running their businesses on generators and are expecting the power to be out for quite a bit longer.

With that being said, if you have been affected by the storm and need assistance in streamlining your transaction processing in order to maintain business operations, please contact us either via phone or e-mail.

We should be able to help in any of the following areas at no cost to you. Resending transactions Sending transactions directly to your 3PL, and save your live orders until your systems are available Sending your transactions via Human Readable format in an E-mail, to be printed at a remote location Confirming your transactions send and obtain receipts for you Posting your normally integrated transactions to a website for fulfillment Holding all transactions on our system and slowly release transactions as the cancel date approaches Auto-generating time sensitive 855 (PO Acknowledgements) if needed Plus any other reasonable requests you may have

Please let us know if we can help in any way and we will be happy to lend assistance. We will also be reaching out by phone to clients in the affected areas. Our thoughts are with you. If you haven't heard from us, or if you have any questions, please feel free to give us a call at (401) 491-9595 or email HurricaneRelief@B2BGateway.Net for more information.

B2BGateway Newsletter 12 out now

B2BGateway Newsletter 12 is out now http://bit.ly/R0Uczg

Webinar on '5 Ways to Increase Profitability Through EDI'

 

Join B2BGateway and ERP VAR on Wednesday October 24th, 2012 at 10am PDT for a webinar on '5 Ways To Increase Your Profitabilty Through EDI' Register here for free http://bit.ly/P7uMoE

Why outsourcing EDI may make sense for your organization.

Although EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) has been around since the late 1970’s, it started gaining increased traction in the early to mid 1990’s. The increased popularity in the 1990’s was mainly due to a heavy push from large organizations with large transactional volumes to reduce costs and increase efficiencies through automation.

Unfortunately, the very thought of EDI, can be daunting for an organization that has not used EDI before or has limited IT resources. The initial reaction is that EDI has been ‘forced’ on their organization by a large retailer or trading partner. Terms such as ANSI X12, UN/EDIFACT, Tradacoms, VAN, AS2, seem like Double Dutch and better still, the traditional English language has been replaced by numeric values, e.g. a Purchase Order is now called an 850, an Invoice becomes an 810, a Ship Notice becomes an 856, and so on. After a short period in production, the new EDI user will suddenly understand the benefits of EDI for their organization – reduced errors, shorter order to payment cash cycles, and reduced costs.

As mentioned above, there are many standards and communication protocols associated with EDI – in North America ANSI X12 is the predominant EDI standard, whereas in Europe and the Far East a far more popular standard is UN/EDIFACT. Some trading partners prefer to communicate through a VAN (Value Added Network), whereas others will prefer AS2 or FTP. Add to this mix a myriad of 318+ recognized EDI documents, customized mapping and reporting functions and it is clear to see why EDI becomes a daunting task for any organization.

It is at this stage that outsourcing your EDI requirements should make sense to your organization. Outsourced EDI solution providers come in various shapes and sizes. Some providers will require you to invest in your own mapping solution and they then develop the maps. Then there are others, like B2BGateway.Net, that provide the entire service and are also the first point of contact between your organization and your trading partners to resolve any EDI issues that may arise.

For further information on B2BGateway.Net’s fully outsourced EDI solutions please visit www.B2BGateway.Net or email Sales@B2BGateway.Net

B2BGateway and ERPVAR.com announce partnership and webcast series.

ERPVAR.com, a network comprised of Sage, Microsoft Dynamics, Epicor, NetSuite, Intacct and Intuit Value-Added Resellers (VARs), has partnered with B2BGateway to give members access to B2BGateway's EDI solutions. B2BGateway and ERPVAR.com will engage in a monthly webcast series to educate customers about their cloud-based, fully-integrated EDI solutions and how these solutions can meet the customers requirements in a cost effective manner. There will be one webcast held in partnership with five participating VARs outlining the benefits of EDI and automating the supply chain process. http://bit.ly/Vnh6W6