The EDI Primer
For those who may be unfamiliar with the EDI standard, and those who may have used EDI but have encountered a new, unfamiliar question.
This introduction aims at addressing the basic questions of convention and implementation of the EDI technology. I have a list of topics, and hope that over time I can cover all of them. I also hope that people reading here may have questions that I haven’t thought to write about. Please let me know what your questions are and I will see what I can do about providing answers. (more…)
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
The 3rd layer of the EDI envelope is the ST segment. The ST segment contains a Document Identifier, and a control number. The ST and its partner the SE segment define the beginning and ending of the Document. The SE segment contains a counter of segments within the document, and the corresponding control number to the ST. Relatively simple compared to the ISA and the GS.