EDI Standards
Global Standards for Local Businesses
What is an EDI standard?
The very definition of EDI is that it is the exchange of electronic documents, between businesses or trading partners using a standardized format. It is the standardized format that differentiates EDI documents from other electronic documents such as PDFs that are sent via email.
Despite EDI documents having a structured format that enables computer systems to directly communicate with each other, there are multiple EDI standards in use, which dictate the exact format and structure of the messages.
Some EDI standards are more prevalent in certain geographies or industries and have typically been developed in response to a particular need in that geography or vertical market.
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What is EDIFACT?
EDIFACT stands for Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce, and Transport and is a standard developed by the United Nations. The EDIFACT standard provides an internationally agreed message format, directories, and guidelines for multi-country and multi-industry EDI communications.
What is Tradacoms?
Tradacoms is an EDI standard introduced in 1982 as a precursor to EDIFACT and subsequently maintained and extended by GS1 UK. The development of Tradacoms ended in 1995 in favor of the EDIFACT EANCOM subsets.
What is EDI ANSI X12?
ANSI X12 stands for American National Standards Institute X12 and refers to the American EDI standard developed in 1979.
What is EANCOM?
Developed in 1987, EANCOM was created as a subset of the EDIFACT standard.
What is EDI XML?
EDI via the XML open standard differs greatly to other standards-based EDI, because XML is made up of information gathered into tags rather than having set positions for the data like the EDIFACT and X12 standard.
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