1. what is EDI?
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Electronic Data Interchange. Exchange business documents between two systems or two partners in a standard (ANSI X12 , EDIFACT etc.)/ pre-defined format (flatfile or csv or xml etc)
2. what are the levels in EDI message format? Ans :
There are 3 levels 1. Header 2. Detail 3. Summary (trailer)
3. what are transactions you have worked?
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For Ex Retail translations 850,997,855,856 and 810 and Logistics transactions like 210,214 ,211 or 204 , 997 etc
4. what are protocols using for communication?
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For Ex. FTP , SFTP , HTTP, AS2 ,FTPS ,AS3 , Webservices etc.
5. what is the complex transaction set you have worked till now?
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You can say EDI 856 in ANSI X12 standard which is having multiple levels of mapping. those are Shipment , Order , Pack , Tare and Item. Shipment , Order and Item are mandatory
6. what are the difference between ANSI X12 message and EDIFACT messages?
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ANSI X12 standard mostly using in US region and EDIFACT standards mostly used in Europe region
7. How you will validate flat file structure?
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Flatfile structure is validated by the Record and field lengths
8. what are the levels in EDI 856 message format?
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Shipment . Order , Pack , Tare and Item
9. Can you please tell me some thing about EDI 850 or EDI 810 or EDi 856 messages
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EDI 850 --- Purchase Order EDI 855 --- Purchase Order Acknowledgement EDI 856 --- Advance shipment Notification EDI 810 --- Invoice
10. which field having purchase order number in EDi 850message?
Ans :
BEG03
11. what are the different types of purchase orders (EDI 850)?
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NE: New order SA: Standalone purchase order BK: Blanket purchase order
12. where you can identify the purchase order number in Advance shipment notice (EDI 856) message?
Ans :
PRF01
13. can you please explain some thing about ISA and GS envelopes?
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ISA06 --- Sender ID ISA08 --- Receiver ID ISA13 --- Interchange Control Number GS01 ---- Functional Identifiers ex. PO , IN GS02 ---- Sender ID GS03 ----- Receiver ID GS06 --- Group Control Number
