EDI Transaction Sets

VICS EDI

180 - Return Merchandise Authorization and Notification

Provides for customary and established business and industry practice relative to the returning of merchandise to the vendor. This transaction set may satisfy request for returns, authorization or disposition of the return, notification of return, or notification of consumer return.

204 - Motor Carrier Shipment Information

Used to tender a shipment to a carrier and/or forward shipment details to a carrier, consignee, or third party. Provides the receiver with detailed Bill of Lading rating, and scheduling information pertinent to a shipment.

210 - Motor Carrier Freight Details and Invoice

Can be used both as an invoice to request payment for services rendered or as details pertaining to freight shipment(s) charges.

213 - Motor Carrier Shipment Status Inquiry

Used to request a shipment status message from a motor carrier on the shipments referenced in the transaction set. It is sent to the carrier by either the shipper or consignee in the absence of regularly scheduled transmissions of Transaction Set 214.

214 - Transportation Carrier Shipment Status Message

Used by a transportation carrier to provide shippers, consignees, and their agents with the status of shipments in terms of dates, times, locations, route, and identifying numbers.

250 - Purchase Order Shipment Management Document

Allows a retailer or manufacturer to communicate purchase order data, to a transportation provider, for the purpose of managing the purchase order cycle from the time of pickup request through delivery.

810 - Invoice

Request payment from the purchaser for products/services rendered.

812 - Credit/Debit Adjustment

Notify trading partner of adjustment or billback--identifies and contains details and amounts covering exceptions, adjustment, credit, or debits for goods or services.

816 - Organizational Relationships

Used to 1) convey location address information for a company, 2) maintain location address information through periodic updates, and 3) convey location relationships, e.g., the relationship between a buying location and its related bill to, ship to and mark for locations.

818 - Commission Sales Report

Allows a retailer to advise a trading partner of commission sales and salary information. Commission data enables a trading partner to reconcile commission payments and salary support.

820 - Payment Order/Remittance Advice

Used to (1) order a financial institution to make payment to payee(s) on behalf of the sending party, (2) to report the completion of a payment to payee(s) by a financial institution, and (3) to give advice to the payee by the payor on the application of a payment made with the payment order or by some other means.

824 - Application Advice

Used to report any application errors from any business application systems, e.g., invoice edit errors. and for a financial institution (bank) to report acceptance or discrepancies to either the sender or receiver of a Payment Order/Remittance Advice Transaction Set (820).

830 - Planning Schedule with Release Capability

Provides for customary and established business practice relative to the transfer of forecasting/material release information between organizations.

831 - Application Control Totals

Used to transmit totals associated with a collection of like transactions.

832 - Price/Sales Catalog

Report vendor product data to a retailer for future ordering purposes. Primary intention of this transaction set is to provide product U.P.C. numbers and vendor descriptive data to facilitate the matching to the retailer's internal item number identification system.

840 - Request for Quotation

Provides potential buyers with the ability to solicit price, delivery schedule, and other items from potential sellers of goods and services.

843 - Response to Request for Quotation

Provides potential buyers with price, delivery schedule, and other terms from potential sellers of goods and services, in response to a request for such information.

846 - Inventory Inquiry Advice

Report inventory counts from a retailer to a vendor or to the retailer's system for model stock management or sales analysis purpose; or from the vendor to the retailer for notification of stock on hand.

850 - Purchase Order

1/Used for the ordering of goods to be delivered to a single location.

2/Used to order the same product SKU for delivery to multiple locations.

852 - Product Activity Data

Allows a distributor, warehouse, or retailer to advise a trading partner of inventory, sales, and other product activity information.

853 - Routing and Carrier Instructions

Provides the sender with the capability to transmit detailed routing and carrier information pertinent to a route.

855 - Purchase Order Acknowledgment

Provides for customary and established business and industry practice relative to a seller's acknowledgment of a buyers' purchase order. It is also used to advise a retailer that the vendor has or will ship merchandise as prearranged in the vendor generated replenishment process.

856 - Ship Notice/Manifest

Provide the retailer with advance information about product shipments so the retailer may better plan workloads and receipt processing.

857 - Shipment And Billing Notice

Combines the data requirement of the Ship Notice/Manifest Transaction Set (856) and Invoice Transaction Set (810). It is essentially a refined ship notice with terms and invoice totals added to the order level, and, item amounts and unit prices, allowances, and charges added to the item level.

860 - Purchase Order Change Request - Buyer Initiated

Communicate changes, additions, or deletions to a previously transmitted purchase order.

861 - Receiving Advice/Acceptance Certificate

Used for the notification of receipt or formal acceptance of goods and services, but only at the shipment level, not individual line item.

864 - Text Message

Provides users with a capability to electronically move messages, contracts, explanations, and other one-time communications.

869 - Order Status Inquiry

Provides the ability to request all pertinent information relative to an entire purchase order, or selected products/services on a purchase order.

870 - Order Status Report

Provides the ability to report on all pertinent information relative to an entire purchase order or selected products/services on a purchase order. Allows for the inclusion of "reasons" relative to the status of the purchase order(s). This transaction set is a result of an order status inquiry transaction for warded by a retailer to their trading partner.

889 - Promotion Announcement

Advise a trading partner of a promotion introduction or change.

980 - Functional Group Totals

Used to provide selected totals for the Motor Carrier Freight Details and Invoice Transaction Set (210).

990 - Response To A Load Tender

Sent from a motor carrier to the shipper in response to a Motor Carrier Shipping Information Transaction Set (204) used as a load tender.

997 - Functional Acknowledgment

Provide a positive response that informs the sender if the contents of the transmission received was syntactically correct.