The common types of EDI standards,
ANSI X12 is the US standard (3040, 4040)
UCS is a standard in grocery companies.
TRADACOMS is a standard in UK retail Industry.
EDIFACT is the international EDI standard (used usually outside of North America).
ODETTE is the standard used in European Automobile Industry.
The following schematic representations show how EDI works between customer, vendor and 3rd party.
The first one is an overview, a very basic representation of EDI inside an organization
The second one shows in detail of how the EDI works
Legend:
| EDI X12 template | Description | Inbound/ Outbound | Message Type |
| 850 | Purchase Order | outbound | ORDERS |
| 855 | PO Acknowledgement | inbound | ORDRSP |
| 940 | Warehouse Shipping Order | outbound | DESADV |
| 945 | Warehouse Shipping Advice | inbound | SDPICK |
| 856 | Advance Shipping Notification (ASN) | inbound | DESADV |
| 810 | Invoice | inbound | INVOIC |
| 820/823 | Lock Box/EFT | outbound | LOCKBX |
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