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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ANSI |
American National Standards Institute (ANSI). This organization is the coordinator for national standards in the United States. It is a member of non-treaty international standards organizations, and coordinates the activities involved in US participation in these groups. |
| ANSI Format |
Stream file format that uses transactions, segments, elements, identifiers and delimiters. All data lengths are variable in this format. Specifications for the HIPAA-compliant ANSI X12N version 4010 implementation guides are available on the Washington Publishing Company website. |
| ANSI Standard |
A document published by ANSI that has been approved through the consensus process of public announcement and review. Each such standard must have been developed by an ANSI committee and must be revisited by the committee within five years for updating. |
| Application Acknowledgment |
A transaction set whose purpose is to return a response to a transaction set that has been received and processed in an application program. The Purchase Order Acknowledgment Transaction Set 8554 is an example of an application acknowledgment. It is used to respond to the Purchase Order Transaction Set 850 presenting such things as whether the receiver can fulfill the order and if it can be done on time. |
| Application Advice (824) |
A transaction set that accepts, rejects or identifies errors in the content of any transaction set beyond the normal syntax checks. |
| Application Software |
Software used in a business environment to perform functions specific to the job requirements. Functions typically performed in the mortgage banking industry include loan origination, loan servicing and investor reporting. |
| AS1 |
Applicability Statement 1 (AS1) is Electronic Data Interchange over the Internet (EDI-INT) specification that uses a well-known standard using SMTP to transport data. |
| AS2 |
Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) is Electronic Data Interchange over the Internet (EDI-INT) specification that uses a well-known standard using HTTP to transport data. |
| AS3 |
Applicability Statement 3 (AS3) is Electronic Data Interchange over the Internet (EDI-INT) specification that uses a well-known standard using FTP to transport data. |
| ASC X12 |
Accredited Standards Committee X12 (ASC X12), Electronic Data Interchange. An ANSI committee chartered to develop uniform standards for the electronic exchange of business transactions. |
| ASN |
Advance Ship Notice |
| Asynchronous Transmission |
In modem communication, a form of transmission in which data is sent intermittently, one character at a time, rather than as a steady stream with characters separated by fixed time intervals. |
| Authentication |
A mechanism that allows the receiver of an electronic transmission to verify the sender and the integrity of the content of the transmission through the use of an electronic "key" or algorithm shared by the trading partner. This algorithm is sometimes referred to as an electronic signature. |
| Available To Sell (ATS) |
Total quantity of goods committed to the pipeline for a ship to or selling location. This includes the current inventory at a location and any open purchase orders. ATS is the quantity compared to the Goal and ROP to determine the replenishment need. |
| Bisynchronous Transmission |
A form of transmission in which data is encoded in either ASCII or EBCDIC. Messages can be of any length and are sent in units called frames, optionally preceded by a message header. |
| Business-to-Business (B2B) |
Business-to-business e-commerce entails companies buying from and selling to each other electronically, but it has also evolved to include Supply Chain Management (SCM). |
| Business-to-Consumer (B2C) |
Business-to-consumer electronic commerce is the purchase of consumer goods or services online. |
| Certification |
This is one step above compliance testing for EDI-INT (See Compliance Checking). Certification has a legal connotation signifying that a third-party organization has put its stamp of approval on the outcome and has, in a sense, guaranteed the products meet the conditions of the test. This has a significant risk factor to the certifying entity, and should only be done when the benefits outweigh the risks. |
| Communication Protocol |
This is an agreed upon format for transmitting data between two devices (e.g, Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). The protocol may determine, for example, the type of error checking and data compression method used. |
| Compliance Checking |
This is a checking process used to ensure that a transmission complies with ANSI X12 syntax rules. |
| Conditional (C) |
This is a data requirement designator that indicates that the presence of a specified data element is dependent on the value or presence of other data elements in the segment. The condition must be stated and must be able to be processed by a computer. |
| Conformance Testing |
Focuses on demonstrating that EDI-INT solutions are written in a manner that implements the specification. Usually, there are degrees of compliance. Sometimes the specification defines these degrees, and other times the testing suite defines these degrees of compliance. Complete compliance testing to a specification document may be quite arduous and time-consuming depending upon how the specification was written and how complex the described interactions happen to be. Issues like risk (legal business processes such as POs are often involved) and distance (necessary yet sufficient to accomplish the marketing goal) indicate the degree of compliance, from basic to complete, which may be reasonably accomplished. As a result, compliance with a specification often does not guarantee interoperability. |
| Control Segment |
This is a segment that has the same structure as a data segment but is used for transferring control information for grouping data segments. Control segments may be loop control segments (LS/LE), transition set control segments (ST/SE) or functional group control segments (GS/GE), defined in X12.6, or interchange control segments (ISA/IEA/TA), defined in X12.5. |
| Control Validation |
A confirmation that information within the control segments is correct. |
| CPFR |
Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) is the sharing of forecast and related business information among business partners in the supply chain to enable automatic product replenishment. |
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