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Types of EDI Standard

This document discusses EDI standards and EDIFACT. It defines proprietary and public EDI standards and notes that EDIFACT is the international set of EDI standards developed by the UN. It describes EDIFACT's role in facilitating multi-country and multi-industry B2B exchanges through its syntax rules, data elements, segments, and messages which define business transactions for industries like trade, transport, customs, and more.

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Types of EDI Standard

This document discusses EDI standards and EDIFACT. It defines proprietary and public EDI standards and notes that EDIFACT is the international set of EDI standards developed by the UN. It describes EDIFACT's role in facilitating multi-country and multi-industry B2B exchanges through its syntax rules, data elements, segments, and messages which define business transactions for industries like trade, transport, customs, and more.

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Types of EDI standards:

• Proprietary standard - EDI standard developed for


a specific company or industry. This is also called a
non-public or private standard.

• Public standard - EDI standard developed for use


across one or more industries.

EDIFACT

• Electronic Data Interchange for Administration,


Commerce, and Transport is the international set of
EDI standards
• Became a UN standard in 1987
• Maintenance and further development is the
responsibility of the United Nations Centre for Trade
Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT)
• Includes syntax rules and implementation
guidelines, message design guidelines, data elements,
code sets, and other definitions
• Used for business-to-business (B2B)
communication rather than business-to-consumer
(B2C)
Allows multi-country and multi-industry exchange
The four pillars of EDIFACT

• Syntax
- Rules for the definition of a message structure.

• Data elements
- Smallest data unit
- Include codes & the values for items such as
date & address code.

• Segments
Groups of related data elements

• Messages
- Ordered sequence of segments
- Defines a business transaction

EDIFACT Structure Chart

• For EDIFACT each document type is referred to as


a message. For trade purposes the documents include
order, dispatch advice, invoice, payment order &
remittance advice. Other sectors include their own
documentation requirements, sectors using EDIFACT
include:
• Transport

• Customs
• Finance
• Construction
• Statistics
• Insurance
• Tourism
• Healthcare
• Social Administration
• Public Administration

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