Explaining EDI: 900 Transaction Codes

Most common 900 transaction codes:

940: Warehouse Shipping Order

• This transaction set can be used to enable the depositor to advise a warehouse to make a shipment, confirm a shipment, or modify or cancel a previously transmitted shipping order.

943: Warehouse Stock Transfer Shipment Advice

• The transaction set can be used by a depositor or an agent of the depositor to advise the recipient that a transfer shipment has been made. This transaction set provides a receiving location with detail information concerning product being shipped to that location.

944: Warehouse Stock Transfer Receipt Advice

• The transaction set can be used by a receiving location to advise a depositor or an agent of the depositor that a transfer shipment can be received. This transaction set provides the depositor or the depositor’s agent with detail information concerning product that has been received.

945: Warehouse Shipping Advice

• The transaction set can be used by the warehouse to advise the depositor that a shipment was made. It is used to reconcile order quantities with shipment quantities.

946: Delivery Information Message

• The transaction set can be used by a receiving location to advise a depositor or an agent of the depositor that a transfer shipment has been received. This transaction set provides the depositor or the depositor’s agent with detail information concerning product that has been received.

947: Warehouse Inventory Adjustment Advice

• The transaction set can be used to inform a warehouse/depositor of a quantity or status change to inventory records. This transaction set provides detail information concerning the internal adjustments which occur between a warehouse and a depositor.

997: Functional Acknowledgment 

• The transaction set can be used to define the control structures for a set of acknowledgments to indicate the results of the syntactical analysis of the electronically encoded documents. The encoded documents are the transaction sets, which are grouped in functional groups, used in defining transactions for business data interchange. This standard does not cover the semantic meaning of the information encoded in the transaction sets.

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