X12 vs. EDIFACT

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X12 vs. EDIFACT Comparison and Contrast
Presented by Deb Williams
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X12 vs. EDIFACT Comparison and Contrast
COMPARE
ANSI Transaction EDIFACT Message 810
Invoice INVOIC Invoice 830 Planning
Schedule DELFOR Delivery Schedule 850
Purchase Order ORDERS Purchase Order
856 Ship Manifest Notice DESADV Dispatch
Advice 862 Shipping Schedule DELJIT
Delivery Just In Time 997 Functional Ack.
CONTRL Functional Ack.
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X12 vs. EDIFACT Comparison and Contrast

• EDIFACT
• International - UN
• EDI for Administration, Commerce and Transport
• Message
• Segment Groups (Loops)
• Segment
• Simple Data Element
• Composite Data Element

• ASC X12
• North American - ANSI
• American National Standards Institute
• Transaction Set
• Segment Tables (Loops)
• Segment
• Elements
• Sub-element

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X12 vs. EDIFACT EDIFACT Groups
Group 1
Group 2
Group 6 includes Group 12
Group 12 includes the LIN, PIA, MEA, LOC and
Group 15 and 17
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X12 vs. EDIFACT EDIFACT Groups
Group 12 Continued...
Group 15 includes QTY, DTM and Group 16
Group 16
Group 17 includes QTY, DTM and Group 18
Group 18 includes QTY and DTM
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X12 vs. EDIFACT Comparison and Contrast
ASC X12 ISA GS ST
first message nth message CTT SE GE IEA
EDIFACT UNA (delimiter String
Advice) UNB UNG UNH first message nth
message NO DETAIL OR HL COUNTERS UNT UNE UNZ

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X12 vs. EDIFACT Delimiters
EDIFACT allows the trading partners to either -
Establish a service string UNA - Default
Service String Apostrophe (') segment
terminator Plus sign () segment tag and data
element separator Colon () component data
element separator
LIN18R12555IN
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X12 vs. EDIFACT Comparison and Contrast
The Material Release (830) vs. The Delivery
Schedule (Delfor)
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X12 vs. EDIFACT ISA vs.. UNB
ISA000001005289806013056781329805280832
U004010011Tgt
UNBUNOA1005289806013056781320198052808320
0111'
EDIFACT uses a 1 for Test and a Blank for
Production
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X12 vs. EDIFACT GS vs.. UNG
GSPS005289806350678132199805280832001X0040
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UNGDELFOR005289806350678132199805280832001U
ND99A'
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MATERIAL RELEASE - COMPARISON
ANSI ASC X12 830 Transaction Set
EDIFACT DELFOR Message
ST8300001
UNH0001DELFORD99AUN'
BGM241981475' DTM13719980528102 DTM158199
80227102 DTM159 20000118102 RFFON981471320
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BFR059814798147132019 DLA1998022720000118
19980528
ANSI transaction sets has different Beginning
Segments for each transaction
EDIFACT has 1 Beginning Segment BGM for all
messages
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MATERIAL RELEASE - COMPARISON
4 Segments vs.. 1 Segment
ANSI ASC X12 830 Transaction Set
EDIFACT DELFOR Message
N1STJOHN DEERE FACTORY1005289806 N2C/O ACME
WAREHOUSE N31000 MAIN STREET N4MOLINEIL61265U
S
NADST00528980616JOHN DEERE FACTORY C/O
ACME WAREHOUSE1000 MAIN STREET C/O ACME
WAREHOUSEMOLINEIL61265US

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ANSI ASC X12 830 Transaction Set
EDIFACT DELFOR Message
GIS36 LINAR111222IN PIA1RC0408VP466000B
OCR
LIN00001BPAR111222 VPRC0408CR466000BO

REFDK722
LOC7722
QTY48150 DTM5019980521102 QTY7015200 DTM
5119970801102 RFFSI30322
EDIFACT sends Cumulative Quantities, dates sent
and Ship to Ids are at different level.. That we
will compare in slide below.
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MATERIAL RELEASE - COMPARISON
ANSI ASC X12 830 Transaction Set
EDIFACT DELFOR Message
SCC2D
FST150CD19980604
QTY1150
DTM219980604102
FST100CD19980618
SCC4D QTY1100 DTM219980625102
FST100DD19980625
FST200DD19980702
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ANSI ASC X12 830 Transaction Set
EDIFACT DELFOR Message
QTY48150 DTM5019980521102 QTY7015200 DT
M5119970801102
SHP0115005019980521 SHP02152000511997080
1
(This is equivalent to SHP but not at this level)
REFSI30322
RFFSI30322 '
No Line or HL counters used in EDIFACT
CTT13350
SE170001
UNT260001
UNE1001 UNZ1001
GE1001 IEA1001

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THE END
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Any Questions Now ?????