x12 EDI Transaction Sets

 Below is a list of x12 transaction sets that we process and transmit between numerous trading partners.

 The transaction sets below have additional information which is accessed by clicking on its name, all information is provided from multiple sources including the Accredited Standards Committee X12. ASC X12 Standard [Table Data]. Data Interchange Standards Association, Inc.

EDI Insurance Plan Description (100)

 The x12 100 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Insurance Plan Description Transaction Set (100) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set is used to transmit life insurance, annuity, and disability insurance product availability and features, historical performance, investment options, distributions channels, and offering company information.

EDI Name and Address Lists (101)

 The x12 101 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Name and Address Lists Transaction Set (101) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction can be used to facilitate the rental or exchange of name and address mailing lists between direct marketing companies.

EDI Associated Data (102)

 The x12 102 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Associated Data Transaction Set (102) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set may be used to convey associated data. Associated data is defined as an object, a set of functionally-related information not using the usual transaction set structure in segments. The complete set of information constituting an object, including the information necessary to uniquely identify an object, is defined as a package. Objects may include graphic, text, parametric, tabular, image, spectral, audio, etc. data. The character set repertoire of an object is not governed by the character set repertoire identified for any accompanying transaction sets contained in the interchange.

 Associated data may be linked with other business transactions as an augmentation to other functional data. Therefore, referencing capabilities properly relating the object to the associated transaction set must be provided. Because user preferences require flexibility within the techniques for referring to an object, no particular methodology is specified. The only requirement is the assignment of an object identification number attributable to the object which should be unique for a sufficient time to avoid any confusion. Multiple references to identify all related transaction sets and objects are permitted.

The transaction set is not media dependent, is not limited to a specific transmission protocol, and can be linked to other transaction sets. Interchanges may contain functional groups containing transaction sets, packages, or transaction sets and packages. The transaction set may be included in any functional group within an interchange. Only one package may be conveyed within a single occurrence of an Associated Data Transaction Set.

EDI Abandoned Property Filings (103)

 The x12 103 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Abandoned Property Filings Transaction Set (103) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set is used to report abandoned property filings information, such as uncashed checks or abandoned bank account balances, to government agencies and may be used by the government agencies to distribute information on abandoned property for publication to the general public. It may also be used to initiate an Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) payment to transfer the value of the abandoned property to the government agencies.

EDI Air Shipment Information (104)

 The x12 104 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Air Shipment Information Transaction Set (104) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to provide the sender with the capability to transmit detailed bill of lading and rating information pertinent to an air carrier shipment. This transaction set provides shipment detail information for the air carrier in terms of 1) sender information, 2) shipment detail for multiple and single piece shipments, 3) consignee and third-party information, 4) detail and charges for each shipment, and 5) shipment totals.

EDI Business Entity Filings (105)

 The x12 105 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Business Entity Filings Transaction Set (105) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This bi-directional transaction set can be used by business entities, governmental administrators and regulators to exchange required business entity filing information, such as annual reports, registered agent changes and changes of officers, partners and directors, and may include information about any required fees.

EDI Motor Carrier Rate Proposal (106)

 The x12 106 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Motor Carrier Rate Proposal Transaction Set (106) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used by a motor carrier to propose rates and services to a shipper, receiver, or other relevant party.

EDI Request for Motor Carrier Rate Proposal (107)

 The x12 107 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Request for Motor Carrier Rate Proposal Transaction Set (107) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used by a shipper, receiver, or other relevant party to request that a motor carrier provide a rate and service proposal.

EDI Response to a Motor Carrier Rate Proposal (108)

 The x12 108 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Response to a Motor Carrier Rate Proposal Transaction Set (108) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used by a shipper, receiver, or other relevant party to respond to a motor carrier's rate and service proposal.

EDI Vessel Content Details (109)

 The x12 109 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Vessel Content Details Transaction Set (109) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to provide all the information necessary to report event details for a shipment and status for one or more containers bound for a port. It is intended to accommodate the details for one status or event associated with many containers, as well as more than one status or event for one shipment.

EDI Air Freight Details and Invoice (110)

 The x12 110 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Air Freight Details and Invoice Transaction Set (110) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to provide a customer with an air invoice for transportation and other charges related to shipments, including Original Invoices, Past Due Billings, Balance Due Bills and Revisions.

EDI Individual Insurance Policy and Client Information (111)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Individual Insurance Policy and Client Information Transaction Set (111) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This standard can be used to exchange policy and client information among organizations administering individual life and health insurance contracts and their trading partners (e.g., agents, brokers). It is not intended to be used for group insurance.

EDI Property Damage Report (112)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Property Damage Report Transaction Set (112) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set will be used to provide property damage information between property and casualty insurance companies, independent agents, service and information providers. This information includes, but is not limited to providing cost estimates involving functions such as demolishing, new constructions, damage repair and replacement.

EDI Election Campaign and Lobbyist Reporting (113)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Election Campaign and Lobbyist Reporting Transaction Set (113) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This Bi-directional transaction set can be used by candidates, candidate committees, party committees, political action groups, lobbyists and other entities to exchange disclosure data.

EDI Air Shipment Status Message (114)

 This contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Air Shipment Status Message Transaction Set (114) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to provide the shipper and consignee with status information on current shipments. This transaction set can provide shippers, consignees and their agents with the status of shipments in terms of 1) dates, 2) times, 3) locations, 4) charges, 5) route,/ and 6) identifying numbers.

EDI Vehicle Shipping Order (120)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Vehicle Shipping Order Transaction Set (120) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used to notify a carrier of the impending arrival of a motor vehicle which the carrier is to ship to the destination herein specified or on which that carrier is to perform a service. It may be sent to a carrier by the vehicle manufacturer, by another carrier, or by an agent of the manufacturer.

EDI Vehicle Service (121)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Vehicle Service Transaction Set (121) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used by a carrier to notify a Vehicle Manufacturer that a requested movement or service has been performed on motor vehicles or that a change in status has occurred.

EDI Vehicle Damage (124)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Vehicle Damage Transaction Set (124) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This standard can be used to provide vehicle damage information flow between Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance companies, independent agents, service providers, information providers, self-insurers and financial institutions. Business functions consist of the estimating of vehicle damage and the detailed reporting of parts and labor cost connected with repairing the estimated damage.

EDI Multilevel Railcar Load Details (125)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Multilevel Railcar Load Details Transaction Set (125) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used by the origin rail carrier or loading contractor to report the departure of a multilevel railcar and its contents to the vehicle manufacturer. It is used by the vehicle manufacturer, origin rail carrier, or loading contractor to forward data pertaining to the loaded railcar and its contents to the destination rail carrier or haulaway carrier(s) or both upon departure. It is also used by the destination rail carrier, or unloading contractor to report to the vehicle manufacturer, the arrival of a railcar at the destination rail ramp.

EDI Vehicle Application Advice (126)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Vehicle Application Advice Transaction Set (126) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used by the vehicle manufacturer to notify a carrier as to the result of processing the transactions received from the carrier during the previous day or payments being released today or both.

EDI Vehicle Baying Order (127)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Vehicle Baying Order Transaction Set (127) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used to request or report the assignment of a motor vehicle to a specific predetermined bay (parking space) in a storage or shipping facility and to report conditions of a storage or shipping facility.

EDI Dealer Information (128)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Dealer Information Transaction Set (128) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used by the shipper to notify carriers of the establishment of a new "Ship To" Location (e.g. Retail Dealer, Drop Ship Point, or Body Vendor) or profile change to an existing "Ship To" Location in the carrier's area of service.

EDI Vehicle Carrier Rate Update (129)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Vehicle Carrier Rate Update Transaction Set (129) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used by either a carrier or the vehicle manufacturer to transmit new freight rates either as the result of a rate adjustment or as a rate proposal for new business.

EDI Student Educational Record (Transcript) (130)

 The student transcript is used by schools and school districts and by post-secondary educational institutions to transmit current and historical records of educational accomplishments and other significant information for students enrolled at the sending schools and institutions. The transcript may be sent to other educational institutions, to other agencies, even to prospective or current employers

EDI Student Educational Record (Transcript) Acknowledgment (131)

 The Student Educational Record (Transcript) Acknowledgment record is used to confirm that the original transcript did, in fact, come from the proper office at the educational institution indicated as the sender and that certain key elements of the transcript were received as they were sent. It also provides the sending institution with confirmation that the original record was received by the intended recipient and the date it was received. This information may then be relayed to the student or other individual who requested the record transfer.

EDI Human Resource Information (132)

 The Human Resource Information Transaction Set is used to transmit current and historical records of employment status, education, teaching credentials, work experience, and other significant information on employees in an education environment. Data contained in this transaction set may be sent to educational institutions, school districts, retirement systems, and state or other agencies. This information can be useful in establishing credentials for consideration for employment, certification, and administrative and statistical reporting, or community services.

EDI Educational Institution Record (133)

 The Educational Institution Record conveys descriptive characteristics of post secondary and elementary/secondary educational institutions. Data contained in this record includes information about institutional location, type, student enrollment, staffing governance, finance, programs, and services at an educational institution.

EDI Student Aid Origination Record (135)

 This transaction set can be used by lending institutions, colleges, universities and trade schools and loan guarantee agencies to exchange information relating to the certification, approval, and guarantee of specific student aid. This information includes, but is not limited to, student and applicant identification, school enrollment data, borrowing history, and the terms of the loan. This standard supports multi-program transactions to exchange information about a student loan, or grant between schools and fund sources. A fund source could be a guarantor and lender combination, state agency, private lender, scholarship agency or the US Department of Education.

EDI Educational Testing and Prospect Request and Report (138)

 The Educational Testing and Prospect Request and Report Transaction Set can be used by educational institutions and employers to request and receive results of testing programs from testing services and prospective student information from prospect services. Each transaction may include one prospect's identification, demographic information, academic background, goals and preferences, test identification, testing conditions, scoring results, and test normalization analysis including national, regional and local norms.

EDI Student Loan Guarantee Result (139)

 The Student Loan Guarantee Result Transaction Set can be used by guarantee agencies to inform a lender, a school, or both as to the status of a student loan guarantee. The guarantee result information includes, but is not limited to the conditions of approval or denial of a loan guarantee, notice of guarantee and loan disclosure terms, and information regarding previously guaranteed loans.

EDI 140 Product Registration (140)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Product Registration Transaction Set (140) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to specify the manufacturer, seller, secondary warranter, and purchaser or lessee of the product. It can specify the date the product was sold, delivered, and placed in service as well as identify the product model and serial numbers. It can specify the class of service expected from this individual sale, for example: industrial, commercial, or household. This registration information can be used to divide sales commissions among sales associates or attribute license fees to the proper manufacturer. It can be used to submit many product registrations at one time to one receiving organization.

141 Product Service Claim Response (141)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Product Service Claim Response Transaction Set (141) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to transmit the status of a product service claim and the items accepted and rejected for payment from the product service claim. Each product service claim submission could have represented the repair of several individual products and each pair could have consisted of several repair actions involving parts and labor.

EDI 142 Product Service Claim (142)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Product Service Claim Transaction Set (142) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to transmit the servicing organization, claimant, manufacturer, seller, and purchaser of the product.

EDI Product Service Notification (143)

 This transaction set can be used to transmit either a mandatory or a voluntary recall. While the recall transaction could be sent to a consumer, it is more likely to be sent to a servicing organization to provide them notice of the recall and to establish their authority to service the items specified in the recall notice. It could be sent to the seller if they are required to notify the purchaser, and it could be sent to an owning organization where they are capable of receiving EDI transactions, such as a large fleet owner of automobiles. It could be a recall from the distribution channel of products. One recall notice is limited to one set of items sharing the possibility of the same problem. The notice also can be a service bulletin which could specify a repair, engineering change, a field replacement, or other such action to a product. The service action could be specified for the next time that product is being serviced. It could just as well specify that the action must take place as soon as possible or it could be at a specified particular date and time so as to coordinate the change at many product locations. This could happen, for example, in an interconnected computer system or a telephone switching system.

EDI Student Loan Transfer and Status Verification (144)

 The Student Loan Transfer and Status Verification Transaction Set is used by lending institutions, guarantee agencies and secondary markets to send and receive information regarding the transfer of ownership of a student loan. It can also be used to verify the status of a student loan prior to and subsequent to the purchase of the loan.

EDI Request for Student Educational Record (Transcript) (146)

 The Request for Student Educational Record (Transcript) Transaction Set is used by educational institutions to which a student has applied for admission. This request is then sent to the educational institution which the student is currently attending or previously attended.

EDI Response to Request for Student Educational Record (Transcript) (147)

 The Request for Student Educational Record (Transcript) Transaction Set is used to advise the requesting institution regarding when the record will be sent or why it will not be sent.

EDI Report of Injury, Illness or Incident (148)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Report of Injury, Illness or Incident Transaction Set (148) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to report information pertaining to an injury, illness or incident to entities interested in the information for statistical, legal, and claims and risk management processing requirements.

EDI Notice of Tax Adjustment or Assessment (149)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Notice of Tax Adjustment or Assessment Transaction Set (149) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used by a taxing authority to transmit to a taxpayer either a notice of adjustment to a prior tax filing, or a notice of assessment of taxes due to the taxing authority, which may be a notice of warrant.

EDI Tax Rate Notification (150)

 The X12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Tax Rate Notification Transaction Set (150) for use within an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used by taxing authorities to electronically transmit information concerning tax rates.

EDI Electronic Filing of Tax Return Data Acknowledgment (151)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Electronic Filing of Tax Return Data Acknowledgment Transaction Set (151) within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set is used to electronically acknowledge receipt of each tax return filed using the Electronic Filing of Tax Return Data Transaction Set (813) and may indicate any error conditions.

EDI Statistical Government Information (152)

 This transaction set can be used to report pre-defined statistical government information.

EDI Unemployment Insurance Tax Claim or Charge Information (153)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Unemployment Insurance Tax Claim or Charge Information Transaction Set (153) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This bi-directional transaction set can be used by employment security agencies to notify employers or other agencies of a possible charge to their employers' unemployment insurance tax account and by employers responding to the notice with supplemental information that might affect the chargeability of the claim. This transaction set can also be used by employers to notify claimant(s)' representative, e.g., union, to protest a claim.

EDI Secured Interest Filing (154)

 This transaction set is used to file Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) financing statement forms, liens, judgments and other statements of secured interest, and to exchange secured interest filing information.

EDI Business Credit Report (155)

 This transaction set may be used to convey identification, location, financial, payment experiences, banking, suits, liens, judgments and public filing details, operational, affiliate, organizational, credit rating, and other information about a business to support automated business decision processing and update business data bases.

EDI Notice of Power Attorney (157)

 The Notice of Power of Attorney Transaction Set is a bi-directional transaction set that can be used to notify entities of the existence of a power of attorney and to provide information as to its applicability. The transaction set may also be used to acknowledge powers of attorney or their cancellation.

EDI Tax Jurisdiction Sourcing (158)

 The Tax Jurisdiction Sourcing Transaction Set (158) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This standard can be used to transmit any address, in US Postal Service format, from a wireless telecommunications vendor to the holder of tax jurisdiction sourcing information for the state in which the address resides, and to receive in return a sourcing of all tax jurisdictions which have governance over the address in question.

EDI Motion Picture Booking Confirmation (159)

 The Motion Picture Booking Confirmation Transaction Set (159) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used to confirm Motion Picture business terms, conditions, and licensing agreement information from distributor to exhibitor.

EDI Transportation Automatic Equipment Identification (160)

 The data contents of the Transportation Automatic Equipment Identification Transaction Set (160) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used to allow participants to share automatic identification equipment information and data at interchange points.

EDI Train Sheet (161)

 The transaction set can be used to allow railroads to exchange train sheet information and ensure that crews operating equipment on other railroads are aware of current operating conditions.

EDI Transportation Appointment Schedule Information (163)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Transportation Appointment Schedule Information Transaction Set (163) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used by transportation carriers and their trading partners to request and accept freight pickup and delivery appointments.

EDI Revenue Receipts Statement (170)

 This Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data content of the Revenue Receipts Statement Transaction Set (170) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set is used to report daily ticket sales information for each show within a contract week. A contract week is normally a Friday through Thursday and is the period a film is shown in a theatre. Daily information is presented by show and includes ticket category, price, attendance and time of entertainment events.
The transaction set is designed to report multiple levels of detail from individual points of occurrence or form consolidated points such as holding companies (circuits).

EDI Court and Law Enforcement Notice (175)

 This transaction set can be used to notify interested parties about important court events and actions related to a specific court case. It may also be used to transmit information about a specific law enforcement or administration of justice event to interested parties. This may include events like case dispositions, notices about criminal offenses, accidents or incidents, arrest warrants, court orders, and administrative actions.

EDI Court Submission (176)

 This transaction set can be used to submit a legal document or claim and supporting documentation to a court or other designated recipient. It can be transmitted to the submitter to indicate the date and docket information assigned, or it can be transmitted to the submitter to indicate claim disposition or an opinion deciding a case.

EDI Environmental Compliance Reporting (179)

 The transaction set can be used by commercial and public facilities to submit environmental compliance reports to the Environmental Protection Agency and state and local environmental agencies. The transaction set can also be used to forward data or exchange environmental compliance data amongst environmental agencies at all levels of government, and to return status to the submitter.

EDI Return Merchandise Authorization and Notification (180)

 This X12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Return Merchandise Authorization and Notification Transaction Set (180) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can provide for customary and established business and industry practice relative to the returning of merchandise to the vendor. This transaction set may satisfy request for returns, authorization or disposition of the return, notification of return, or notification of consumer return.

EDI Royalty Regulatory Report (185)

 The transaction set can be used to provide royalty regulatory data for extraction of minerals and petroleum products from leased property. The data can be sent to federal and state government agencies to meet regulatory requirements. The data can be exchanged between private industry trading partners for information purposes.

EDI Insurance Underwriting Requirements Reporting (186)

 This standard can be used by the information providers to report the results of specific services to their trading partners for information to complete the insurance underwriting process on individually underwritten life and health insurance.

EDI Premium Audit Request and Return (187)

 This transaction set can be used to communicate premium audit information between property and casualty insurers, and independent premium audit service providers. This information includes, but is not limited to: premium audit request information (i.e., type of audit being requested, policyholder name, business locations, class codes, estimated exposures, date of coverage, producing agency, endorsements); and completed audit information (i.e., actual classification codes and exposures, description of operations, sources of financial information, subcontractor exposures) for the auditable general liability, commercial automobile and worker's compensation lines of insurance.

EDI Educational Course Inventory (188)

 The Educational Course Inventory Transaction Set can be used by schools and school districts and by post secondary educational institutions to request and to transmit information about educational courses that are currently being offered or that have been offered in the past by the school, school district or postsecondary institution.

EDI Application for Admission to Educational Institutions (189)

 The Application for Admission to Educational Institutions Transaction Set contains all information, except for official transcripts that students use to apply for admission to educational institutions. The individual student may send the application for admission directly to the educational institution. In addition, entities other than the student may route or handle the application for admission. These entities include high schools, high school counselors, admission application service providers and clearing houses, other educational institutions, testing agencies and recommenders.

EDI Student Enrollment Verification (190)

 The Student Enrollment Verification Transaction Set can be used by guarantee agencies, lending institutions, educational institutions, secondary markets and others to request and receive information required to verify a student's enrollment status.

EDI Student Loan Pre-Claims and Claims (191)

 The Student Loan Pre-Claims and Claims Transaction Set can be used by lending institutions, secondary markets or student loan servicers to exchange information with guarantee agencies regarding pre-claims assistance on student loans that are approaching a default status and claim payment requests for defaulted student loans.

EDI Grant or Assistance Application (194)

 The Grant or Assistance Application Transaction Set can be used by organizations submitting applications for grants, cooperative agreements and other assistance. These applications will typically include project, budget, personnel, descriptive and other related data.

EDI Federal Communications Commission (FCC) License Application (195)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) License Application Transaction Set (195) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set provides a uniform, singular, transmittal medium between applicants, coordinators, and license granting authorities, for the submission, acknowledgment of new applications, and the resubmittal of corrections to previously transmitted Federal Communications Commission (FCC) License Application.

EDI Contractor Cost Data Reporting (196)

 This transaction set can be used to support contractor cost reporting requirements for actual costs and estimates at completion associated with major research and development (R&D) and production contracts or programs. This includes nonrecurring and recurring costs by work breakdown structure elements summarizing all activities on a contract or proposal; non recurring and recurring functional cost or hour categories for selected work breakdown structure elements; progress curve (learning curve) information detailing unit or average lot data by functional cost or hour categories; and summary contractor business base information such as indirect expenses, rates, and resources. This information can be used to evaluate contractor proposals, make cost projections of a given program, develop historical data bases to develop statistical techniques, and make independent cost analysis of new acquisitions. This transaction set can be used to convey proposed, initial, progress, updated, or final (end of contract) cost information.

EDI Real Estate Title Evidence (197)

 This transaction set can be used to transfer the data contained in standard Title Reports, Title Commitments, and Title Policy Forms of the American Land Title Association, as well as the corresponding State Forms or other title evidence formats indicating the results of the title examination process.

EDI Loan Verification Information (198)

 This transaction set can be used to request, validate, or exchange standard loan verification information among entities involved in the loan life-cycle. These entities may include lenders, employers, depository institutions, credit agencies, investors, mortgage insurance companies and so on.

EDI Real Estate Settlement Information (199)

 The Real Estate Settlement Information transaction set can be used to transfer real estate settlement information among mortgage lenders, real estate closing agents and other interested parties.

EDI Mortgage Credit Report (200)

 This transaction set is used to transmit the data that comprises a mortgage credit report. It is the electronic response to the Mortgage Credit Report Order Transaction Set (833).

EDI Residential Loan Application (201)

 This transaction set can be used to transfer the data contained in the Uniform Residential Loan Application between mortgage lenders, mortgage service vendors, insurance companies, credit reporting agencies and secondary market organizations. It can also be used, in conjunction with other transaction sets, to provide information needed to obtain an automated underwriting decision from a residential real estate automated underwriting system.

EDI Secondary Mortgage Market Loan Delivery (202)

 This transaction set can be used to report mortgage loan information (i.e., borrower, property, underwriting information, etc.) among mortgage lenders, mortgage service vendors and secondary mortgage market organizations.

EDI Secondary Mortgage Market Investor Report (203)

 This transaction set can be used for the transfer and reporting of mortgage servicing information between mortgage servicers, mortgage service bureaus and secondary mortgage market organizations.

EDI Motor Carrier Load Tender (204)

 The EDI 204 transaction set is the Motor Carrier Load Tender. This is used by shippers to tender an offer for a shipment to a full truckload motor carrier. It may be used for creating a new shipment, updating or replacing a shipment, or canceling a shipment. Shippers may include manufacturers, distribution centers, wholesalers, or any other organization that handles and ships goods.

EDI Mortgage Note (205)

 This transaction set can be used by mortgage originators, settlement agents, warehouse lenders, document custodians, secondary market entities and other industry participants to exchange the data comprising the mortgage note and mortgage characteristics.

EDI Real Estate Inspection (206)

 This transaction set can be used by mortgage lenders, insurance companies or others to initiate, modify or cancel a site inspection by a field service organization, home inspection company, insurance vendor or other industry participant. It can also be used by a field service organization, home inspection company, insurance inspection vendor or other industry participant to report the results of a site inspection.

EDI Motor Carrier Freight Details and Invoice (210)

 The EDI 210 transaction set is called the Motor Carrier Freight Details and Invoice. It replaces a paper invoice, used by commercial truckers and other freight carriers. The transaction set can be used to provide detail information for charges for services rendered by a motor carrier. It is used both as a motor carrier invoice to request payment or as details pertaining to motor freight shipment(s) charges.

EDI Motor Carrier Bill of Lading (211)

 This transaction set can be used to allow shippers or other parties, responsible for contracting with a motor carrier, to provide a legal bill of lading for a shipment. It is not to be used to provide a motor carrier with data relative to a load tender, pickup manifest, or appointment scheduling.

EDI Motor Carrier Delivery Trailer Manifest (212)

 This transaction set can be used to allow motor carriers to provide consignees or other interested parties with the contents of a trailer, containing multiple shipments, that has been tendered for delivery. It is not to be used to provide the recipient with data relative to a full truckload shipment.

EDI Motor Carrier Shipment Status Inquiry (213)

 The transaction set can be used to request shipment status from a motor carrier. The requestor may be a shipper or consignee.

EDI Transportation Carrier Shipment Status Message (214)

 The EDI 214 transaction set represents a Transportation Carrier Shipment Status Message. It is typically used by transportation carriers, such as trucking companies, to provide shippers and consignees with the status of their shipments. This transaction set can be used by a transportation carrier to provide shippers, consignees, and their agents with the status of shipments in terms of dates, times, locations, route, identifying numbers, and conveyance.

EDI Motor Carrier Pickup Manifest (215)

 This transaction set can be used to allow shippers, or other parties, to provide a motor carrier with a manifest of all of the shipments tendered to a carrier. It is not to be used to provide a motor carrier with data relative to a load tender, legal bill of lading, pickup notification, or appointment scheduling.

EDI Motor Carrier Shipment Pickup Notification (216)

 This transaction set can be used to allow shippers or other interested parties to provide a motor carrier with notification that a shipment is available for pickup. It is not to be used to provide a motor carrier with data relative to a legal bill of lading, rating, pricing, or appointment scheduling.

EDI Motor Carrier Loading and Route Guide (217)

 The transaction set can be used to provide interested parties with a motor carrier's loading instructions and/or routing guide. A transmission may include a list of the motor carrier's terminals, a list of all points served, or a matrix of all points served showing the advertised service times. The motor carrier may also indicate its breakbulk terminal(s) to be used for each point for loading purposes.

EDI Motor Carrier Tariff Information (218)

 The transaction set can be used to provide for the interchange of processible data extracted from a motor carrier's tariff or pricing information database. It can be used by any producer of motor carrier tariffs or rates to transmit tariff and rate information to shippers or other interested parties. This transaction set is not intended to transmit a complete, legal tariff; rather, it is intended to provide rate information upon the request of shippers or other interested parties. Users of this data should continue to rely on legally filed tariffs as the basis of the legal agreement between themselves and their carriers.

EDI Logistics Service Request (219)

 This set can be used by a shipper to transmit data to a logistics related organization to provide order detail relevant to upcoming transportation requirements.

EDI Logistics Service Response (220)

 This set can be used by a logistics related organization to transmit data to a shipper in response to a logistics service request.

EDI Cartage Work Assignment (222)

 This transaction set can be used to provide the cartage carrier with placement, rating, and scheduling information pertinent to the movement of equipment by a cartage carrier.

EDI Consolidators Freight Bill and Invoice (223)

 The transaction set can be used by a freight consolidator to transmit invoice and freight bill data to the appropriate party. The freight bill services may be provided by the consolidator or a motor carrier unrelated to the consolidator. This transaction shall not be used to transmit freight bill data without consolidator's invoice data.

EDI Motor Carrier Summary Freight Bill Manifest (224)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Motor Carrier Summary Freight Bill Manifest Transaction Set (224) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used to transmit multiple freight bills at the summary level to a single payor.

EDI Response to a Cartage Work Assignment (225)

 The transaction set can be used by a cartage carrier to provide for customary and established business practice relative to a response to a cartage work assignment. The transaction set includes either acceptance or decline of the work assignment and any related reference numbers.

EDI Trailer Usage Report (227)

 This standard can be used to transmit information related to the shipper's, consignee's, or third party's planned usage of a trailer supplied by a motor carrier for trailer inventory reporting purposes only. This transaction set is used to provide the motor carrier with information related to the loading of a trailer, rejection of the trailer, and reported location. It is not to be used to provide a motor carrier with data relative to a load tender or pickup notification and requires no response.

EDI Equipment Inspection Report (228)

 This transaction set can be used by a transportation carrier to provide equipment owners with the results of an equipment inspection activity. This transaction set can be used to communicate whether or not the equipment is in a damaged state. If damage has been identified, it can also be used to convey details regarding the damage. It is not used to convey information relevant to damage claims or repair activities.

EDI Motor Carrier Package Status (240)

 This standard can be used to provide the status of a package, packages, or group of packages considered a shipment by a motor carrier.

EDI Data Status Tracking (242)

 This management transaction set is the vehicle by which the transmission status information is conveyed by a service request handler to the interchange sender, interchange receiver, or both; it can be used to provide status information regarding interchange as it flows from an interchange sender through one or more service request handlers to an interchange receiver during its transmission cycle. It can be used by the interchange sender or interchange receiver to request from a service request handler ad hoc or periodic reports containing status information regarding interchanges.

EDI Product Source Information (244)

 This transaction can be used to transmit classification and categorization data of company's products, processes, and facilities to existing and prospective trading partners or listing agencies.

EDI Real Estate Tax Service Response (245)

 This transaction set can be used to respond to requests for information, modifications to loan status, complete property tax data necessary for paying tax bills or cancellations of real estate property data. This transaction set facilitates the transfer of property tax information among real estate industry participants.

EDI Account Assignment/Inquiry and Service/Status (248)

 The purpose of the 248 Account Assignment/Inquiry and Service/Status document is its used for two way, multitransactional purposes of assigning accounts for collection, reporting status inquiries, inquiry responses and to update accounts between entities. Used within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. Standard EDI formats include X12, ANSI, EDIFACT and its subsets.

EDI Data Status Tracking (242)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Data Status Tracking Transaction Set (242) within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This management transaction set is the vehicle by which the transmission status information is conveyed by a service request handler to the interchange sender, interchange receiver, or both; it can be used to provide status information regarding interchange as it flows from an interchange sender through one or more service request handlers to an interchange receiver during its transmission cycle. It can be used by the interchange sender or interchange receiver to request from a service request handler or periodic reports containing status information regarding interchanges.

EDI Product Source Information (244)

 This x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Product Source Information Transaction Set (244) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction can be used to transmit classification and categorization data of company's products, processes, and facilities to existing and prospective trading partners or listing agencies.

EDI Real Estate Tax Service Response (245)

 The x12 Transaction Set (DSTU) contains the format and establishes the data content of the Real Estate Tax Response Transaction Set (245) for use within an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used to respond to requests for information, modifications to loan status, complete property tax data necessary for paying tax bills, or cancellations of real estate property data. This transaction set facilitates the transfer of property tax information among real estate industry participants.

EDI Account Assignment/Inquiry and Service/Status (248)

 The transaction set can be used for two-way, multi-transactional purposes of assigning accounts for collection, reporting status inquiries and inquiry responses and to update accounts between entities.

EDI Animal Toxicological Data (249)

 The transaction set can be used to exchange animal toxicology data collected from studies conducted on pesticides, drugs, or other substances. This transaction set accommodates the lowest reportable level of individual animal toxicology data for transfer between industry and the government, within industry itself, and between government agencies.

EDI Purchase Order Shipment Management Document (250)

 This transaction set can be used to allow a retailer or manufacturer to communicate purchase order data, to a transportation provider, for the purpose of managing the purchase order cycle from the time of pickup request through delivery.

EDI Pricing Support (251)

 This transaction set can be used to request or transmit budget or actual data for labor and overhead rates, factors, and other supporting data for a specified period of time.
This bi-directional transaction set can stand alone, or can be used to support the Contract Pricing Proposal (805) Transaction Set.

EDI Insurance Producer Administration (252)

 The transaction set is used to transmit insurance producer information (licensing and appointment data, background information, etc.) among insurance companies and insurance distributors such as agents, brokers, and their organizations.

EDI Underwriting Information Services (255)

 This standard can be used to request specific services from information providers in support of the underwriting process. In addition, the standard can be used between trading partners to request/receive status information on outstanding requests.

EDI Periodic Compensation (256)

 The transaction set is used to report compensation data, including compensation amounts, compensation earned, compensation paid, adjustments and balances.

EDI Residential Mortgage Insurance Explanation of Benefits (259)

 This standard can be used to transmit the results of a claim for mortgage insurance benefits, referred to as an explanation of benefits (EOB), between a mortgage insurer and the customer receiving the financial benefit. This standard can be used for transmitting the results of both pool and primary mortgage insurance claims.

EDI Application for Mortgage Insurance Benefits (260)

 This transaction set can be used by mortgage lenders to file claims with both government agencies and private mortgage insurers in the event that defaults or foreclosure activity allow for the collection of a third-party guarantee/insurance benefit. The information in a standard format will allow all mortgage insurance claim payments to be requested similarly, whether they be to an investor, insurer or guarantor.

EDI Real Estate Information Request (261)

 This transaction set can be used to initiate, modify or cancel a request for real estate information. This transaction set will be used to transfer information among real estate industry participants.

EDI Real Estate Information Report (262)

 This transaction set is used for the transfer and reporting of real estate information among real estate industry participants.

EDI Residential Mortgage Insurance Application Response (263)

 This is used by a mortgage insurance company to communicate the receipt and disposition of a Residential Mortgage Insurance Application Transaction Set (872). It will be used to provide the mortgage originator with the results of the insurance application and, if accepted will provide basic information about the insurance coverage. It can also be used to confirm certification of coverage. It is not intended to replace the legal commitment (Certificate of Coverage of Insurance) which will continue to be delivered in its current form.

EDI Mortgage Loan Default Status (264)

 This transaction set will allow all notifications of mortgage loan default/foreclosure status to be filed similarly, whether they be to an insurer, guarantor, investor or servicer. This transaction set is used to submit notification of delinquent mortgage loans that could potentially result in foreclosure activity leading to the collection of a third-party guarantee/insurance benefit. This transaction set can also be used to file default status reports as well as foreclosure and bankruptcy information with servicers, attorneys, trustees, government agencies, private mortgage insurers and investors.

EDI Real Estate Title Insurance Services Order (265)

 The transaction set can be used by a real estate agent, mortgage lender or other real estate company to order, update, or cancel title services from a title insurance services company. This standard can also be used by the title services company to return title information to the party originating the order. This transaction set replaces the paper forms used to request services such as title searches and insurance and replaces mortgage closing documents.

EDI Mortgage or Property Record Change Notification (266)

 This transaction set can be used by financial institutions such as Mortgagees, Lienholders and Lessors to inform interested parties such as Insurers, Investors and Taxing Authorities of mortgage or property record changes. This transaction set is intended to be used by financial institutions to communicate change notifications, such as the sale of mortgages, assumptions, transfers and terminations of interest.

EDI Individual Life, Annuity and Disability Application (267)

 The transaction set is used to transmit new business application information among distributors (agents, broker/dealers, etc.), insurance companies and reinsurance companies for the purpose of underwriting an individual life, annuity or disability contract.

EDI Annuity Activity (268)

 The transaction set is used to convey annuity account activity from annuity providers to distributors (e.g., broker/dealers, financial planners, banks, savings and loans) for the purpose of communicating account positions and transaction activity.

EDI Health Care Benefit Coordination Verification (269)

 This transaction set can be used to transmit Health Care Benefit coordination information such as claim identification, previous adjudication details, and adjudication verification from one Health Care Payer to another. The transaction can be used as a notification of benefit coordination information, a request for verification of benefit coordination information, or as the response to a verification of benefit coordination information request.

EDI Health Care Eligibility/Benefit Inquiry (270)

 Used to inquire about the health care benefits and eligibility associated with a subscriber or dependent. This transaction set can be used to inquire about the eligibility, coverages or benefits associated with a benefit plan, employer, plan sponsor, subscriber or a dependent under the subscriber's policy. The transaction set is intended to be used by all lines of insurance such as Health, Life, and Property and Casualty.

EDI Health Care Eligibility/Benefit Response (271)

 Used to respond to a request inquire about the health care benefits and eligibility associated with a subscriber or dependent. This transaction set can be used to communicate information about or changes to eligibility, coverage or benefits from information sources (such as - insurers, sponsors, payors) to information receivers (such as - physicians, hospitals, repair facilities, third party administrators, governmental agencies). This information includes but is not limited to: benefit status, explanation of benefits, coverages, dependent coverage level, effective dates, amounts for co-insurance, co-pays, deductibles, exclusions and limitations.

EDI Property and Casualty Loss Notification (272)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Property and Casualty Loss Notification Transaction Set (272) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to provide loss information flow between property and casualty (P & C) insurance companies, agents, service providers, and industry bureaus.

EDI Insurance/Annuity Application Status (273)

 The transaction set can be used by insurance providers to inform their trading partners of the current status of a life insurance or annuity application during the underwriting process.

EDI Healthcare Provider Information (274)

 This standard can be used to exchange demographic and educational/professional qualifications about healthcare providers between providers, provider networks or any other entity that maintains or verifies healthcare provider information. Such exchanges include the transmitting, inquirying, or responding to an inquiry. Healthcare provider information is routinely exchanged for the purpose of 1) maintaining provider data bases for claim adjudication, provider directories, patient referrals, and reporting provider information, 2) submitting an application to join a provider organization or provider network such as, but not limited to, a hospital, preferred provider organization (PPO) or health maintenance organization (HMO) and 3) verifying credentials such as educational/professional qualifications, licenses, and malpractice coverage/history.

EDI Patient Information (275)

 This transaction set can be used to communicate individual patient information requests and patient information (either solicited or unsolicited) between separate health care entities in a variety of settings to be consistent with confidentiality and use requirements. Patient information consists of demographic, clinical, and other supporting data.

EDI Health Care Claim Status Request (276)

 This transaction set can be used by a provider, recipient of health care products or services or their authorized agent to request the status of a health care claim.

EDI Health Care Claim Status Notification (277)

 This transaction set can be used by a health care payer or authorized agent to notify a provider, recipient or authorized agent regarding the status of a health care claim or encounter, or to request additional information from the provider regarding a health care claim or encounter. This transaction set is not intended to replace the Health Care Claim Payment/Advice Transaction Set (835) and therefore, is not used for account payment posting. The notification is at a summary or service line detail level. The notification may be solicited or unsolicited.

EDI Health Care Service Review Information (278)

 This transaction set can be used to transmit health care service information, such as subscriber, patient, demographic, diagnosis or treatment data for the purpose of request for review, certification, notification or reporting the outcome of a health care services review.

EDI Voter Registration Information (280)

 This Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Voter Registration Information Transaction Set (280) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used to submit voter registration application information and to transmit information regarding a previously registered voter and changes to such information.

EDI Tax or Fee Exemption Certification (283)

 The transaction set can be transmitted by buyer to seller to certify as to the tax exempt status of one or more business transactions, and from a seller to a Taxing Authority to verify that proper exemption certification has been obtained for the transaction(s). Exemption certification protects the claim of exemption from various taxes and fees for buyers and sellers.

EDI Commercial Vehicle Safety Reports (284)

 This bi-directional transaction set can be used by authorized parties to electronically request and send reports on information related to the safe operation of commercial road vehicles, such as inspection reports, safety and compliance review reports, and hazardous material incident reports.

EDI Commercial Vehicle Safety and Credentials Information Exchange (285)

 This standard can be used by enforcement officials, government administrators and other authorized parties to electronically ask for information on the safety performance, regulatory compliance and credentials status of commercial motor vehicles, carriers and drivers. It can also be used by sources that maintain such data to respond to such requests.

EDI Commercial Vehicle Credentials (286)

 This bi-directional transaction set can be used by owners, lessees, and drivers of commercial motor vehicles to electronically apply for credentials necessary to legally operate those vehicles, and by authorizing jurisdictions to electronically transmit credential data to applicants and other authorized entities.

EDI Wage Determination Transaction set (288)

 This bi-directional transaction set can be used to request and respond to requests for wage information such as prevailing wage rates. This information can be determined by occupational categories, geographical area, nature of the workforce, and contract status.

EDI Cooperative Advertising Agreements Transaction set (290)

 This transaction set is used to initiate, review, and conclude a cooperative advertising agreement. It is designed to be used iteratively. The transaction set can be used to request advertising support, provide guidelines for local advertising, provide cost or budget estimates, issue a cooperative advertising commitment, and provide the actual expenses.

EDI Reservation (Booking Request) (Ocean) (300)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Reservation (Booking Request) (Ocean) Transaction Set (300) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used by a shipper or a forwarder to reserve space, containers and equipment for transport by ocean vessel.

EDI Confirmation (Ocean) (301)

 The transaction set can be used to provide all the information necessary for an ocean carrier to confirm space, container, and equipment availability in response to the Reservation (Booking Request) (Ocean) Transaction Set (300); or to notify other parties such as terminal operators or other ocean carriers.

EDI Booking Cancellation (Ocean) (303)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Booking Cancellation (Ocean) Transaction Set (303) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to provide all the information necessary for a shipper or forwarder to cancel a previous booking request.

EDI Shipping Instructions (304)

 When this transaction set is transmitted to an ocean carrier, it provides all the information necessary to prepare and distribute a contract of carriage such as an ocean bill of lading, sea waybill, and other shipping documents. When this transaction set is transmitted to a freight forwarder or customs broker, it provides for the transmission of shipping and financial information required by the forwarder or customs broker to move cargo and provide the services requested.

EDI Customs Manifest (309)

 The transaction set can be used by carriers, terminal operators, port authorities, or service centers to provide Customs with manifest data on cargo arriving in or departing from oceangoing vessels, railroad trains, or other types of conveyances. The transaction set can be also used by carriers to provide terminal operators, port authorities, or service centers with manifest data on cargo arriving at their facilities via the conveyances mentioned above.

EDI Freight Receipt and Invoice (Ocean) (310)

 This x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Freight Receipt and Invoice (Ocean) Transaction Set (310) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to provide ocean bill of lading information. It is sent by ocean carriers to interested parties and can be used as the receipt for the shipment; to substitute for a paper bill of lading where the parties have agreed that a paper bill of lading is not necessary; to allow shipper or forwarder to verify bill of lading information before an original is printed and released; for information purposes, i.e., as a bill of lading copy; by the carrier to convey manifest information to a terminal operator; and as an invoice for freight.

EDI Canada Customs Information (311)

 This x12 Transaction Set provides the format and establishes the data contents of the Canada Customs Information Transaction Set (311) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set provides all information necessary for an ocean or rail carrier or freight forwarder to report import and export conveyance and consignment information to Canada Customs.

EDI Arrival Notice (Ocean) (312)

 The transaction set can be used to provide all the information necessary for a consignee to receive a shipment including customs, payments due, and estimated arrival date and time of shipment.

EDI Shipment Status Inquiry (Ocean) (313)

 The transaction set can be used to provide all the information necessary for an authorized party to an ocean shipment to inquire of the ocean carrier as to the status of a shipment.

EDI Status Details (Ocean) (315)

 The transaction set can be used to provide all the information necessary to report status or event details for selected shipments or containers. It is intended to accommodate the details for one status or event associated with many shipments or containers, as well as more than one status or event for one shipment or container.

EDI Delivery/Pickup Order (317)

 The transaction set can be used by importers or their agents to provide marine terminal operators with orders for the delivery or pickup of goods.

EDI Terminal Information (319)

 This transaction set can be used by terminal operators to provide shipment arrival event information to authorized parties. It can be used to transmit information such as arrival of the shipment, availability for pickup, or the actual pickup of the shipment. Some of the authorized parties to shipment are customs house brokers, freight forwarders, or consignees.

EDI Terminal Operations and Intermodal Ramp Activity (322)

 The transaction set can be used to provide all the information necessary for a terminal operation, port authority or intermodal ramp to communicate terminal and intermodal ramp activities (e.g., "ingates" and "outgates") to authorized parties to a shipment.

EDI Vessel Schedule and Itinerary (Ocean) (323)

 The transaction set can be used to provide all the information necessary for an ocean carrier to communicate the schedule and itinerary of an ocean vessel to interested parties.

EDI Vessel Stow Plan (Ocean) (324)

 The transaction set can be used to provide all the information relative to the stowage of equipment and cargo on a vessel.

EDI Consolidation of Goods In Container (325)

 This transaction set is used to provide information on the goods loaded into a container. It is sent by a consolidator to the deconsolidator or to the consignee.

EDI Consignment Summary List (326)

 This transaction set is used to provide a list to a customer of all consignments for which an ocean carrier has accepted or is expected to accept responsibility for the transport of goods. It is sent by an ocean carrier or consolidator to a shipper, freight forwarder, consignee, customs broker, or any other interested party.

EDI Customs Status Information (350)

 The transaction set can be used by the Customs Service (CS) to supply carriers, terminal operators, port authorities and service providers with cargo release and cargo hold information for import shipments. It can also be used by the CS to provide exporters or their agents, carriers, and service providers with information pertaining to export shipments.

EDI U.S. Customs Carrier General Order Status (352)

 The transaction set can be used by carriers, terminal operators, port authorities, or service centers to provide U.S. Customs or consignees with bill of lading status information for cargo in or about to go into "General Order" and entry and release information.

EDI Customs Events Advisory Details (353)

 The transaction set can be used by carriers to notify Customs of events concerning cargo moving in-bond, or of conveyance arrivals or departures. These events include the arrival of containers, or cargo covered by individual ocean bills of lading or in-bond numbers, which have moved in-bond to an inland destination or which have been exported. Carriers can also use this transaction set to notify Customs of the arrival or departure of a conveyance for which an electronic manifest has been filed and for the transfer of custodial liability when an in-bond movement involves multiple legs.

EDI U.S. Customs Automated Manifest Archive Status (354)

 The transaction set can be used by U.S. Customs to inform carriers, terminal operators, port authorities, and service centers that the manifest for a specific vessel or voyage is going to be removed from the system. This means that either all bills of lading on a manifest have been reconciled (or closed) or that a number of them are still open and will be reconciled manually.

EDI U.S. Customs Acceptance/Rejection (355)

 The transaction set can be used by U.S. Customs to report errors and discrepancies discovered in the U.S. Customs transaction sets to ocean carriers, terminal operators, port authorities and service centers.

EDI U.S. Customs Permit to Transfer Request (356)

 This x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the U.S. Customs Permit to Transfer Request Transaction Set (356) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. It is sent by requesting trade entities to U.S. Customs to request a Permit To Transfer (PTT).

EDI U.S. Customs In-Bond Information (357)

 The transaction set can be used by transportation carriers, terminal operators, port authorities, and service centers to request authorization for in-bond movements and to add additional legs on to pre-existing in-bond movements.

EDI Customs Consist Information (358)

 The transaction set can be used by transportation carriers, terminal operators, port authorities and service centers to provide a list of bills of lading to be carried on a specific conveyance and trip number for which an electronic manifest has been previously filed.

EDI Carrier Interchange Agreement (Ocean) (361)

 The transaction set can be used to provide all the information necessary for an ocean carrier to tell a terminal operator if motor carriers are authorized to carry its cargo.

EDI Cargo Insurance Advice of Shipment (362)

 This transaction set can be used by shippers to notify their cargo insurance company of a shipment(s) of merchandise insured under their cargo policy.

EDI Rail Carrier Shipment Information (404)

 The transaction set can be used to transmit rail-carrier-specific bill of lading information to a railroad. It is the initial tender of a shipment between a consignor and a rail carrier and can be used as notification of equipment release and/or a legal bill of lading.

EDI Rail Carrier Freight Details and Invoice (410)

 The transaction set can be used to provide detailed information of charges associated with a rail movement. The information is provided by a rail carrier and is sent to the freight payer.

EDI Trailer or Container Repair Billing (412)

 This transaction set will provide the ability to electronically Invoice the responsible party for repairs to trailers and containers being transported by railroads.

EDI Rail Carhire Settlements (414)

 The transaction set can be used to provide for the exchange of Carhire Settlement data including, but not limited to, the following: Current Settlements, First Adjustment Settlements (no penalty), Prior Settlements (penalty on foreign equipment), Summary Transactions and Reclaim Transactions.

EDI Rail Carrier Waybill Interchange (417)

 The transaction set can be used to provide the rail carrier with detailed movement instructions pertinent to a rail carrier shipment and is used by all Class I rail carriers in the United States and Canada.

EDI Rail Advance Interchange Consist (418)

 The transaction set can be used to transmit advance information on equipment being interchanged to a connection rail carrier, from a consignor or to a consignee.

EDI Advance Car Disposition (419)

 The transaction set can be used to provide the receiving rail carrier with advance notification of cars being offered for interchange directly or via a switching carrier, to allow for disposition prior to the actual interchange.

EDI Car Handling Information (420)

 The transaction set can be used to provide a carrier which is going to receive a rail car from another rail carrier the means to redirect a home route or pre-block a rail car prior to actual interchange.

EDI Estimated Time of Arrival and Car Scheduling (421)

 This x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Estimated Time of Arrival and Car Scheduling Transaction Set (421) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used to allow railroads to exchange car scheduling and estimated time of arrival data between carriers.

EDI Equipment Order (422)

 This x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Equipment Order Transaction Set (422) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used to allow a rail carrier or shipper to order required equipment relative to transportation needs.

EDI Rail Industrial Switch List (423)

 The transaction set is intended solely for producing switch lists and equipment notifications. It is not for recording release times and the ordering of empty equipment. It is also to provide switching information agreed to between customer and carrier to show car identity, placement, pull and destination information.

EDI Rail Carrier Services Settlement (424)

 This transaction set can be used to provide detailed information of charges associated with rail services. The information is provided by a rail carrier and is sent to a rail carrier on whose behalf the services were performed.

EDI Rail Waybill Request (425)

 The transaction set can be used to request a copy of a revenue or movement waybill from the origin or previous rail carrier. This will be used only when the requesting carrier is unable to locate the original transmission.

EDI Rail Revenue Waybill (426)

 The transaction set can be used to respond to a request for a rail revenue waybill. Revenue waybill information includes movement, rates, and charges information required to collect revenue from the paying party or parties.

EDI Railroad Retirement Activity (429)

 This transaction set provides the sender with the capability to transmit information pertaining to the processing of railroad employee sickness and unemployment benefit claims against retirement funds. This transaction set will support the transfer of claim information from the Retirement Board to carriers as well as supporting corresponding response from a carrier to the Retirement Board.

EDI Railroad Station Master File (431)

 The transaction set will be used by the Association of American Railroads (AAR) and the rail carriers to apply and disseminate information concerning the railroad stations. Rail carriers report to the AAR the addition or deletion of, or changes to, the list of stations they serve as updates to the centrally maintained master file. The AAR in turn provides all updates to the rail carriers and other subscribers to the system.

EDI Rail Deprescription (432)

 This transaction set can be used by fleet owners to deprescribe their rail cars, and distribute new rates to other participants.

EDI 433 Railroad Reciprocal Switch File (433)

 The transaction set can be used to provide electronic updates for the reciprocal switch status (open, closed or conditionally open) of railroad customers.

EDI 434 Railroad Mark Register Update Activity (434)

 The transaction set can be used to allow the Railroad Industry Reference File central site to communicate Mark Register update activity to subscribers. This information includes the assignment and expiration of railroad reporting marks, Standard Carrier Alpha Codes (SCAC) and unit initials.

EDI 435 Standard Transportation Commodity Code Master (435)

 This transaction set is used to transmit Standard Transportation Commodity Codes and associated information.

EDI 436 Locomotive Information (436)

 This x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Locomotive Information Transaction Set (436) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used to provide the rail carriers with locomotive status and location information.

EDI Railroad Junctions and Interchanges Activity (437)

 This transaction set allows the Railroad Industry Reference File central site to communicate junction and interchange update activity to subscribers. This information would include the creation and expiration of interchange agreements.

EDI Shipment Weights (440)

 The transaction set can be used to transmit weights and scale information between any two interested parties.

EDI Railroad Event Report (451)

 The transaction set can be used by a service provider to communicate activities associated with the movement of goods.

EDI Railroad Problem Log Inquiry or Advice (452)

 The transaction set can be used in the following ways: (1) for a service provider or sponsor to communicate and register a problem; (2) for a party to a movement event to request information about problem logs created; and (3) to provide problem log data in response to a request.

EDI Railroad Service Commitment Advice (453)

 The transaction set can be used by a Rail Interline Service Management shipment sponsor to communicate service commitment details to transportation service providers.

EDI Railroad Parameter Trace Registration (455)

 The transaction set can be used by a freight carrier to: (1) request the establishment of a set of parameters used to select movement activity from a central data store over time; (2) request information about past activities within a date range that meets a set of parameters; and (3) request the establishment of a set of parameters for subsequent use on demand.

EDI Railroad Equipment Inquiry or Advice (456)

 The transaction set can be used in the following ways: (1) for a provider of equipment or transportation service to provide information to a qualified customer; (2) for a qualified customer to inquire as to the location of equipment or shipments; and (3) for one company to provide another company with equipment or shipment information.

EDI Railroad Price Distribution Request or Response (460)

 This x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Railroad Price Distribution Request or Response Transaction Set (460) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used to request or communicate prices (rates and associated information) between two or more parties. It can send or respond to a rate docket which includes maintenance status, qualifying conditions, geographic data, routes, rates, and interline divisions.

EDI Rail Rate Reply (463)

 This transaction set can be used to reply to a Rail Rate Transaction from the receiver's application process based on data content or business rules. This transaction set is used as an application acceptance, application rejection or to indicate that no data was found for a request.

EDI Rate Request (466)

 The transaction set can be used to request rail rates applicable to specific movements.

EDI Rate Docket Journal Log (468)

 The transaction set can be used to transmit comments about rates contained in a rate docket.

EDI Railroad Clearance (470)

 The transaction set can be used to provide the means to request or respond to clearances for dimensional and heavy shipments by Rail.

EDI Rail Route File Maintenance (475)

 This transaction set is used to distribute route file updates of the rail industry route file.

EDI Ratemaking Action (485)

 The transaction set can be used to transmit ratemaking activities related to concurrence, factor change, publisher change, or proposal rejection or trace.

EDI Rate Docket Expiration (486)

 The transaction set can be used to transmit the expiration date of a docket.

EDI Rate Group Definition (490)

 The transaction set can be used to define and name a group of elements (patron, geography, commodity, shipment conditions) pertinent to a tariff.

EDI Miscellaneous Rates (492)

 The transaction set can be used to transmit rail rates for demurrage, detention, and storage.

EDI Rail Scale Rates (494)

 The transaction set can be used to transmit rail scale rate tables.

EDI Medical Event Reporting (500)

 This standard can be used to make voluntary, mandatory, baseline, annual and semi-annual reports on medication and medical device adverse effects and product problems.

EDI Vendor Performance Review (501)

 This bi-directional transaction set can be used to request and receive past performance information. The transaction set may also be used to challenge the validity of the information received and to respond to challenges.

EDI Pricing History (503)

 This bi-directional transaction set can be used by a purchasing party or vendor to request pricing history information for an item. The transaction set can also be used to respond to a request for pricing history information.

EDI Clauses and Provisions (504)

 This bi-directional transaction set can be used to request or respond to requests for clauses and special provisions.

EDI Requisition (511)

 This transaction set can be used to requisition needed material and equipment from a supply distribution system for immediate consumption or storage against projected requirements. The originator can also use this transaction set to amend or terminate the original requisition. This transaction set may be used to convey a description and quantity of the required material, delivery and billing information, and other logistics information necessary to evaluate and meet the material needs of the originator. This transaction set is not used to establish a contractual relationship between trading partners, and may precede the use of a purchase order.

EDI Material Obligation Validation (517)

 The material obligation validation transaction set may be used to: (1) verify the continued need for open orders, (2) confirm open order quantities and order priority, (3) request reinstatement of erroneously cancelled open orders, and (4) validate Government Furnished Material (GFM) orders. The transaction set may convey a description of the material, the urgency of need associated with the transaction and quantity of required material. This transaction set is bi-directional between trading partners.

EDI Income or Asset Offset Transaction set (521)

 This bi-directional transaction set can be created by an agency or entity to require an employer or asset holder to withhold and deliver assets or income on behalf of a person or entity to whom they are owed, as in a levy, lien, or garnishment. It can also be used to confirm or modify a prior notification. This transaction set can also be used by the employer or third party to report the ability to comply with the requirement and the terms of that compliance and may be used to initiate an electronic funds transfer in order to satisfy the requirement.

EDI Material Due-In and Receipt (527)

 The transaction set can be used to provide advanced notification of scheduled material receipts, to report receipts, and to inquire about the status of receipt reporting.

 The 753 transaction set is commonly used to request routing instructions and provide general information about merchandise that is available to be shipped.

The 753 Request for Routing is required by buying organizations that have taken control of their inbound transportation process in order to reduce transportation rates and better control their inventory. The buyer, rather than the supplier, plans shipping and controls the relationship with the carrier. We currently use this document with Amazon to enable a more efficient process of shipping items to their distribution centers.

EDI Logistics Reassignment (536)

 This transaction set is used to provide information necessary to transfer management responsibility between an old and new managing organization. This transaction set may be used to convey a description and quantity of the transferred material, specific inventory locations, product quality information, technical data, open contract information, demand data, procurement history, and other information necessary for the new managing organization to evaluate and meet the material needs of customers.

EDI Notice of Employment Status (540)

 This standard can be used to notify government agencies or authorized parties of the identity of newly hired employees, of the termination of employees, or to confirm employment status. The transaction set may also be used to convey this information between authorized parties, or to convey responses from the agency if necessary.

EDI Contract Abstract (561)

 This transaction set can be used to abstract a new contract, abstract a change in terms of a previously abstracted contract, or to correct a previously transmitted abstract. This bi-directional transaction set includes the information necessary to administer a contract, including modifications and corrections to that contract, and provides an acknowledgment mechanism to enable management of the contract administration process. This transaction set is typically used internally within a business entity as a post-award management report, when the purchasing and contract administration functions are separated within that entity.

EDI Contract Completion Status (567)

 This transaction set can be used to report administrative closure status on completed contracts. The originator can use this transaction set to close contract files, to indicate why contract files will not be closed within established milestones, or to extend contract closeout milestone dates.

EDI Contract Payment Management Report (568)

 This transaction set can be used to enable the transmission of a management report to provide the details of payments and collections made against funds obligated on contracts, orders, and other services.

EDI U.S. Customs Export Shipment Information (601)

 This transaction set can be used by exporters or their agents, carriers, and service providers to transmit export shipment information to the U.S. Customs Service (USCS).

EDI Transportation Services Tender (602)

 This transaction set can be used to communicate rates and tender information. The transaction set permits the transmission of one docket containing all data for tender, such as names of parties, commodities, location points, shipment conditions, notes, rates (point-to-point, scale), and other charges. This transaction set is used by a carrier to submit a new tender or amendments to an existing tender. This transaction set is also used by the government to distribute transportation rates to interested parties. This transaction set fulfills the U.S. government requirements for tender offers but is not restricted to government use only. This transaction set is multi-directional between trading parties.

EDI Excavation Communication (620)

 The transaction set can be used to communicate information related to excavations for the purposes of attaining either clearance for the excavation or to have the potentially impacted parties locate any affected assets and supervise the excavation process or both.

EDI Intermodal Ramp Activity (622)

 The transaction set can be used to transmit specific intermodal ramp facility activities to consignors and other carriers or shippers' agents, when the activity takes place. This activity includes in-gate, out-gate, ramp, and de-ramp.

EDI Well Information (625)

 The transaction set facilitates the exchange of engineering, geological and environmental information related to non-financial well activities. The transaction set can be used between private industry trading partners to relay information about joint venture well activities or between private industry and government agencies.

EDI Maintenance Service Order (650)

 This transaction set provides a uniform, singular medium for the exchange of maintenance related information among organizations involved in the reporting, requesting, scheduling, planning, estimating, coordinating and performing of maintenance actions. It provides the structure to convey maintenance-related information, including maintenance action directives, maintenance actions, cost estimates, maintenance action assignments, maintenance action status, and completion reports. This transaction set can be used in a bi-directional environment alone or in conjunction with the Project Schedule Reporting Transaction Set (806) to link schedule and maintenance action information as well as with the Specifications/Technical Information Transaction Set (841) to link maintenance-related, media independent, technical data.

EDI Intermodal Group Loading Plan (715)

 This transaction set can be used by intermodal or domestic shippers and carriers to provide detailed information on the stowage of containers and other equipment aboard a train. The stowage information may be planned or actual and may be by block or by railcar.

EDI Request for Routing Instructions (753)

 This transaction set can be used to request routing instructions and provide general information about merchandise that is ready to be shipped.

EDI Routing Instructions (754)

 The 754 transaction is a response to Request for Routing Instructions (753) for example from the retailer to the manufacturer. It details the carrier and transportation information for a shipment of products that the manufacturer is ready to ship.

EDI Contract Pricing Proposal (805)

 The x12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Contract Pricing Proposal Transaction Set (805) cover sheet and pricing support detail for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set enables the transmission of cost and pricing data for a given contract action and provides pricing support detail data or references where that data can be found in the proposal.

EDI Project Schedule Reporting (806)

 This transaction set provides for the transmission of planning, scheduling, and status information. The purpose of this transaction set is to establish an initial plan, report progress against the plan, and report changes to the plan. It is designed to serve the needs of government agencies, prime contractors and their subcontractors.

EDI Invoice Transaction Set (810)

 The 810 Invoice is the electronic version of the paper-based invoice document. It is typically sent in response to an EDI 850 Purchase Order as a request for payment once the goods have shipped or services are provided.

EDI Consolidated Service Invoice/Statement (811)

 This transaction set provides for the billing or reporting of complex and structured service invoice/statement detail. This standard can be used by organizations who are interested in sending or receiving either consolidated or standalone invoices for service arrangements which require processing other than that done for the typical product invoice. The Consolidated Service Invoice/Statement can be used as a credit/debit memo to differentiate between payable invoice items and information-only memo items. This transaction set should not be used as a standalone notification of a credit/debit adjustment.

EDI Credit/Debit Adjustment (812)

 The Credit/Debit Adjustment transaction set is used to communicate an adjustment to the charges for products or services. It is the equivalent of a paper credit or debit memo. An 812 may be used by a seller to notify its customer of an increase or decrease in the amount the customer is being charged, relative to a previously transmitted invoice.

EDI Electronic Filing of Tax Return Data (813)

 This transaction set can be used by tax filers to electronically file tax returns with a federal, state, or local taxing authority and which may initiate payments related to the tax return.

EDI General Request, Response or Confirmation (814)

 This standard can be used to request actions to be performed, to respond to a request for actions to be performed or to confirm information related to actions performed.

EDI Cryptographic Service Message (815)

 The transaction set can be used to provide the data format required for cryptographic key management including the automated distribution and exchange of keys. The mechanism uses X12 structures and data formats and is based on existing standards such as X509 and ANSI X3 and X9 developed by the Accredited Standards Committees (ASCs) X9 and X12. The standard provides an X12 format for key distribution and exchange. The Cryptographic Service Message (CSM) transaction conveys the pertinent keying material for use in the EDI environment. The business requirements addressed in this standard for the key management data encompasses distribution and exchange of keying material in support of authentication, encryption and assurances.

EDI Organizational Relationships (816)

 This transaction set can be used to transmit pertinent information about a parent organization, its members and the relationship of a member to another member, and/or to the parent organization. A parent organization could be an association, a multi-hospital system, a chain of retail stores, a holding company, etc. This transaction set can be used to convey the identity and relationship of members to a parent organization; identify eligibility to purchase under the terms and conditions negotiated by a parent organization on behalf of its members; and to update application databases.

EDI Commission Sales Report (818)

 This transaction set can be used to allow a retailer to advise a trading partner of commission sales and salary information. Commission data enables a trading partner to reconcile commission payments and salary support.

EDI Joint Interest Billing and Operating Expense Statement (819)

 The transaction set can be used to transmit periodic expense details from the operator of an asset to the various owners of that asset (e.g., the operation of a petroleum lease or property having multiple owners).

EDI Payment Order/Remittance Advice (820)

 This transaction set provides the EDI format for transmitting information relating to payments. It is typically used in conjunction with an electronic transfer of funds for payment of goods, insurance premiums or other transactions. The actual funds transfer is often coordinated through the Automated Clearing House (ACH) system, and an 820 may be effectively wrapped in an ACH banking transaction.

EDI Financial Information Reporting (821)

 The 821 document is used to report a summary of financial transactions such as report balances, detail and summary of financial transactions and other related financial account information..

EDI Account Analysis Transaction set (822)

 The 822 EDI document is most often sent by a bank to report balances, service charges, and similar transactions to corporate clients. After the 822 Account Analysis is received, a 997 Functional Acknowledgment is sent back from the receiver indicating that the 822 Account Analysis was successfully received.

EDI Lockbox (823)

 This transaction set can be used to transmit lockbox (incoming payments) information and totals from a bank or any other lockbox service provider to a company.

EDI Application Advice (824)

 The transaction set can be used to provide the ability to report the results of an application system's data content edits of transaction sets. The results of editing transaction sets can be reported at the functional group and transaction set level, in either coded or free-form format. It is designed to accommodate the business need of reporting the acceptance, rejection or acceptance with change of any transaction set. The Application Advice should not be used in place of a transaction set designed as a specific response to another transaction set (e.g. purchase order acknowledgment sent in response to a purchase order).

EDI Tax Information Exchange (826)

 This bi-directional transaction set can be used to exchange tax information between various tax agencies and other authorized parties.

EDI Financial Return Notice (827)

 The Financial Return Notice transaction set is used to report to the sender of an 820 Payment Order/Remittance Advice document that the 820 document cannot be processed by the financial institution.

EDI Debit Authorization (828)

 The Debit Authorization transaction set can be used to provide information from the paying entity to the financial institution regarding debits that the paying entity has authorized against its account. The financial institution would hold this information then match it against incoming debits to determine whether those debits have been authorized by the account holder.

EDI Payment Cancellation (829)

 This transaction set is used to cancel a previously transmitted electronic payment between an originating company and its originating financial institution before funds are released.

EDI Planning Schedule with Release Capability (830)

 The transaction set can be used to provide for customary and established business practice relative to the transfer of forecasting/material release information between organizations. The planning schedule transaction may be used in various ways or in a combination of ways, such as: (1) a simple forecast; (2) a forecast with the buyer's authorization for the seller to commit to resources, such as labor or material; (3) a forecast that is also used as an order release mechanism, containing such elements as resource authorizations, period-to-date cumulative quantities, and specific ship/delivery patterns for requirements that have been represented in "buckets," such as weekly, monthly, or quarterly. The order release forecast may also contain all data related to purchase orders, as required, because the order release capability eliminates the need for discrete generation of purchase orders.

EDI Application Control Totals (831)

 The transaction set can be used to transmit totals associated with a collection of like transactions.
The items reported in this transaction set must be of the same transaction set ID code.

EDI Price/Sales Catalog (832)

 The transaction set can be used to provide for customary and established business and industry practice relative to furnishing or requesting the price of goods or services in the form of a catalog.

EDI Mortgage Credit Report Order (833)

 This transaction set can be used by a mortgage originator to request, track and cancel a series of value-added investigative credit reports which are typically required in mortgage lending. It is a collection of borrower information that is needed to order a mortgage credit report.

EDI Benefit Enrollment and Maintenance Set (834)

 Can be used by employers, unions, government agencies, associations or insurance agencies to enroll members to a payer. The payer is a healthcare organization that pays claims, administers insurance or benefit or product. Examples of payers include an insurance company, health care professional (HMO), preferred provider organization (PPO), government agency (Medicaid, Medicare etc.) or any organization that may be contracted by one of these former groups.

EDI Health Care Claim Payment/Advice Transaction Set (835)

 Can be used to make a payment, send an Explanation of Benefits (EOB) remittance advice, or make a payment and send an EOB remittance advice only from a health insurer to a health care provider either directly or via a financial institution.

EDI Procurement Notices (836)

 The transaction set can be used by the buyer to notify the seller or other interested parties of the award or pending award of a contract which may contain some indefinite features, such as delivery schedule, location, and/or quantities. This transaction set can also be used for purchasing actions such as the notification of intent to award or actual award of a small business set-aside purchase, notification of being outside of the competitive range, notice of receipt of protest, notice of receipt of a late bid, notice of bid rejection, notice of the disposition of an unsolicited proposal, public notice of the abstract of bids, and the notification of the award of a requirements type contract.

EDI Health Care Claim Transaction set (837)

 Used to submit health care claim billing information, encounter information, or both, except for retail pharmacy claims (see EDI Retail Pharmacy Claim Transaction). It can be sent from providers of health care services to payers, either directly or via intermediary billers and claims clearinghouses. It can also be used to transmit health care claims and billing payment information between payers with different payment responsibilities where coordination of benefits is required or between payers and regulatory agencies to monitor the rendering, billing, and/or payment of health care services within a specific health care/insurance industry segment.

For example, a state mental health agency may mandate all healthcare claims, Providers and health plans who trade professional (medical) health care claims electronically must use the 837 Health Care Claim: Professional standard to send in claims. As there are many different business applications for the Health Care claim, there can be slight derivations to cover off claims involving unique claims such as for Institutions, Professionals, Chiropractors, and Dentists etc.

EDI Trading Partner Profile (838)

 This transaction set can be used to request, change, verify or transmit business profile information to or from a trading partner. This information can be used by the receiver to facilitate the processing of the sender's business transactions.

EDI Project Cost Reporting (839)

 This transaction set provides the transmission of cost and schedule information to support performance measurement (earned value), program management reporting, and contract funds status reporting. This transaction set will also support the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Energy (DoE), NASA, and other government agency Cost/Schedule Control Systems Criteria (C/SCSC) and funds status reporting requirements. It is designed to serve the needs of government agencies, prime contractors, and their subcontractors.

EDI Request for Quotation (840)

 The transaction set can be used to provide potential buyers with the ability to solicit price, delivery schedule, and other items from potential sellers of goods and services.

EDI Specifications/Technical Information (841)

 The transaction set can be used to transmit or request specifications or technical information between trading partners. It can be used to transmit engineering change and engineering change requests. It can also be used to allow EDI trading partners the ability to exchange a complete or partial technical description of a product, process, service, etc. over the same path as any other EDI transaction. The detail area can include graphic, text, parametric, tabular, image, spectral, or audio data. A transmission includes identification information to assist the receiver in interpreting and utilizing the information included in the transaction.
Further action as a consequence of the receipt and initial processing of the specification or other technical data may or may not require human intervention. The transmission and receipt of the data may require private agreement between the trading partners to automate the receipt of the data.

EDI Nonconformance Report (842)

 The transaction set can be used to report products and processes that do not fulfill specifications or requirements.

EDI Response to Request for Quotation (843)

 The transaction set can be used to provide potential buyers with price, delivery schedule, and other terms from potential sellers of goods and services, in response to a request for such information.

EDI Product Transfer Account Adjustment (844)

 The transaction set can be used to transmit specific data in the form of a debit, credit, or request for credit relating to pre-authorized product transfer actions.

EDI Price Authorization Acknowledgment/Status (845)

 The transaction set can be used by a vendor or manufacturer to transmit specific data relative to the status of or changes to outstanding price authorizations.

EDI Inventory Inquiry/Advice Transaction set (846)

 The transaction set can be used in the following ways: (1) for a seller of goods and services to provide inventory information to a prospective purchaser, with no obligation to the purchaser to acquire these goods or services; (2) for a representative of a seller of goods and services to supply inventory information to that seller; (3) for one location to supply another location with inventory information; and (4) for an inquiry as to the availability of inventory with no obligation on the seller of goods and services to reserve that inventory.

EDI Material Claim (847)

 This standard provides trading partners a means to advise each other of costs and charges involved in fabricated or purchased material or both which has been deemed damaged, unusable, or obsolete. This transaction set is not to be used to submit claims against transportation or insurance carriers. The Material Claim Transaction Set (847) can be used in the following ways: (1) for a seller of material to advise the buyer of costs and charges resulting from order cancellation or change and must be based on the buyer's authorization to fabricate or purchase material or both; (2) for a buyer of material to advise the seller of costs and charges resulting from material which was deemed damaged or unusable.

EDI Material Safety Data Sheet (848)

 The transaction set can be used to communicate chemical characteristics, hazards, and precautions for the safe handling and use of a material. The transaction set is intended to convey the information required for a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) as defined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Hazard Communication Standard, 29 CFR 1910.1200 in the United States, and Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHIMS) in Canada, and various state, province, and local requirements under right-to-know legislation.

EDI Response to Product Transfer Account Adjustment (849)

 This transaction set can be used to transmit a detailed or summary response to a party requesting an accounting adjustment relating to a pre-authorized product transfer.

EDI Purchase Order (850)

 This is a Purchase Order used to place an order for goods or services. The 850 provides the same information you would find in a paper Purchase Order document.

EDI Asset Schedule (851)

 This transaction set provides for the customary and established business and industry practice relative to establishing a schedule of assets and the contractual terms and conditions relating to those assets agreed upon between lessor, lessee, buyer, seller, or any other party needing to establish a precise list of assets.

EDI Product Activity Data (852)

 This transaction set is an important aspect of supply chain visibility. Using 852 transactions, distributors, warehouses or retailers can provide their suppliers with the information they need to plan, ship and set re-order and stocking levels for their products.

EDI Routing and Carrier Instruction (853)

 This transaction set provides the sender with the capability to transmit detailed routing and carrier information pertinent to a route. This transaction set only provides routing information and does not convey information about a shipping event or provide shipping authorization.

EDI Shipment Delivery Discrepancy Information (854)

 This transaction set is used to enable a carrier to notify a shipper or consignee of discrepancies between tendered freight and actual delivered freight. Delivery discrepancy data enables a party to track and control damages, overages, and shortages. This transaction set is not used to acknowledge receipt of goods.

EDI Purchase Order Acknowledgment (855)

 The 855 transaction set is a Purchase Order Acknowledgement. It is used to confirm the receipt of a purchase order (EDI 850 transaction) from a buyer, eliminating the need to call for a confirmation.

EDI Advance Ship Notice Transaction set (856)

 The EDI 856 may be the most complicated document to implement for suppliers. Each trading partner can have very different requirements, which puts the burden on the supplier to support many different formats. The ASN also becomes a data collection issue because of the volume of data points that must be captured and transmitted back to the trading partner. For example, each carton in a shipment may be assigned a unique barcode identifier that must be transmitted back to the trading partner.

EDI Shipment and Billing Notice (857)

 This transaction set provides the recipient of a shipment with data for both receipt planning and payment generation.

EDI Shipment Information (858)

 The transaction set can be used to provide the sender with the capability to transmit detailed bill-of-lading, rating, and/or scheduling information pertinent to a shipment.

EDI Freight Invoice (859)

 The transaction set can be used to provide the sender with the capability to transmit an invoice, including charges, allowances, and details, for transportation services rendered.

EDI Purchase Order Change Request (860)

 The EDI 860 transaction set represents the electronic Purchase Order Change Request. It is used by buyers to request a change to a purchase order (EDI 850) they previously submitted.

EDI Receiving Advice/Acceptance Certificate (861)

 This transaction can be used to report the receipt of shipments or as a formal acceptance of returned defective items. In the case third-party receiving, such as a drop-shipment, the sender may transmit an 861 to report to the purchaser that the shipment was received.

EDI Shipping Schedule (862)

 The EDI 862 Shipping Schedule transaction set details actual shipping requirements. These shipping instructions would replace those forecasted in a previous Planning Schedule 830 transaction, though the 862 does not actually replace the 830.

EDI Report of Test Results (863)

 The transaction set can be used to transmit the results of tests performed to satisfy a specified product or process requirement. This includes, but is not limited to, test data such as inspection data, certification data, and statistical process control measurements.

EDI Text Message (864)

 This Transaction Set is the electronic equivalent of a Text Message. This transaction is designed for the transmission of various communications in a human-readable form, rather than for computer processing.

EDI Purchase Order Change Acknowledgment/Request (865)

 The transaction set can be used to convey acceptance or rejection of changes to a previously submitted purchase order by the seller or to notify the buyer of changes initiated by the seller to a previously submitted purchase order by the seller.

EDI Production Sequence (866)

 The transaction set can be used to provide for the receiver of goods to request the order in which shipments of goods arrive at one or more locations, or to specify the order in which the goods are to be unloaded from the conveyance method, or both. This specifies the sequence in which the goods are to enter the materials handling process, or are to be consumed in the production process, or both. This transaction set shall not be used to authorize labor, materials, or other resources. This transaction set shall not be used to revise any product characteristic specification.

EDI Product Transfer and Resale Report (867)

 The transaction set can be used to: (1) report information about product that has been transferred from one location to another; (2) report sales of product from one or more locations to an end customer; or (3) report sales of a product from one or more locations to an end customer, and demand beyond actual sales (lost orders). Report may be issued by either buyer or seller.

The 867 is similar to the 852 transaction set, which is used by resellers to provide information on product inventory and sales levels to the manufacturers of those products.

EDI Electronic Form Structure (868)

 This transaction set can be used to provide a structure for transfer of EDI standards, or portions thereof, in an electronic form.

EDI Order Status Inquiry (869)

 The transaction set can be used to request all pertinent information relative to an entire purchase order, selected line items on a purchase order, or selected products/services on a purchase order. Inquiry can also be made for all or a selected portion of the customer's ordered items, all or a selected portion of the customer's unshipped items, or all or a selected portion of the customer's shipped items.

EDI Order Status Report (870)

 The transaction set can be used to report on the current status of a requirement forecast, an entire purchase order, selected line items on a purchase order, selected products/services on a purchase order, or purchase orders for a specific customer in their entirety or on a selection basis. The transaction set can also be used to report on the current status of single or multiple requisitions. The report format allows for the inclusion of "reasons" relative to the status. This transaction set may also be used to update the supplier's scheduled shipment or delivery dates. This transaction set can result from either an inquiry or a prearranged schedule agreed to by the trading partners.

EDI Component Parts Content (871)

 This transaction set provides the ability to report the non-domestic contents of a product, or component part contained within a product, in accordance with governmental regulations.

EDI Residential Mortgage Insurance Application (872)

 This transaction can be used by a mortgage originator to request mortgage insurance and to provide supporting information needed to obtain a mortgage insurance commitment on one or several residential mortgage loans. It can also be used, in conjunction with other transaction sets, to provide information needed to obtain an automated underwriting decision from a residential real estate automated underwriting system.

EDI Commodity Movement Services (873)

 This standard can be used to convey request and response information for commodity movement services. This transaction is not to be used for product sales or purchases.

EDI Commodity Movement Services Response (874)

 This standard can be used to return validation information in response to the Commodity Movement Services Transaction Set (873).

EDI Grocery Products Purchase Order (875)

 This transaction set can be used to provide for customary and established grocery industry practice relative to the placement of purchase orders for finished goods in a retail or wholesale consumer market. This standard can be used by a retailer or wholesaler organization to request delivery of finished goods from a broker or supplier organization. This transaction set should not be used to convey purchase order changes or purchase order acknowledgment information.

EDI Grocery Products Purchase Order Change (876)

 The Grocery Products Purchase Order Change Transaction Set can be used to provide for customary and established grocery industry practice relative to the changing of purchase orders for finished goods in a retail or wholesale consumer market. This standard can be used by a retailer or wholesaler organization to request a change to a previously submitted purchase order. Changes are accomplished by restating the value of the data elements to be changed rather than indicating the difference between the old and new value.

EDI Manufacturer Coupon Family Code Structure (877)

 This transaction set can be used by a manufacturer or third party agent to notify a distributor or third party agent relative to coupon family code structures and their associated product codes.

EDI Product Authorization/De-authorization (878)

 The transaction set can be used to advise a trading partner of products authorized at store or warehouse level.

EDI Price Information (879)

 This transaction set can be used to enable a manufacturer, supplier, broker, or agent to provide a trading partner with pricing information.

EDI Grocery Products Invoice (880)

 This transaction set is used to provide for customary and established grocery industry practice relative to billing details for finished goods in a retail or wholesale consumer market. The transaction set can be used by the supplier or broker organization to request payment from a retailer or wholesaler organization. This transaction set is to be used for standalone detail billing and cannot be used for statement billing or credit/debit adjustments.

EDI Manufacturer Coupon Redemption Detail (881)

 This transaction set can be used by a manufacturer or manufacturer's agent to communicate coupon redemption detail and the associated store tag detail necessary for reconciliation to a distributor's or distributor's clearinghouse invoice.

EDI Direct Store Delivery Summary Information (882)

 This transaction set can be used to summarize detailed delivery, return and adjustment information which was previously reconciled at time of delivery in a retail direct store delivery environment, and also to request payment for the products delivered. This transaction set will provide only a summary of direct store deliveries and adjustments without product detail.

EDI Market Development Fund Allocation (883)

 This transaction set is initiated by a manufacturer and provides for customary and established business and industry practice relative to informing a broker or retailer/wholesaler how funds should be allocated in a market development program.

EDI Market Development Fund Settlement (884)

 This transaction set provides for customary and established business and industry practice relative to communicating settlement information associated with a single market development fund event. This transaction set is multidirectional between trading partners.

EDI Retail Account Characteristics (885)

 This transaction set is used to enable a retailer, wholesaler or broker to provide detailed attributes of a retail store such as store number, size of store, class of trade, product category information, customer demographic information, or marketing, etc. to a trading partner.

EDI Customer Call Reporting (886)

 This transaction set can be used to enable a broker or manufacturer to communicate retail store level information such as condition of products, shelf space allocation, store conditions, marketing programs in effect, information on competitor products, selective pricing information, display information, etc.

EDI Coupon Notification (887)

 This transaction set is used by a manufacturer to notify a distributor, retail clearing house, manufacturer's agent or broker of the issuance of coupons and to provide information necessary for processing.

EDI Item Maintenance (888)

 This transaction set is used to enable a manufacturer, supplier, broker, or agent to provide detailed finished goods product information to a partner in a consumer goods market.

EDI Promotion Announcement (889)

 This transaction set can be used by a broker, distributor or manufacturer and provides for customary and established business and industry practice relative to the announcement of promotion allowance amounts, dates and performance conditions that may apply; the replacement of a previously transmitted promotion in its entirety; the cancellation of a previously transmitted promotion; changes to promotion dates; or acceptance of a promotion offered by a broker or supplier. This transaction set is multidirectional between trading partners.

EDI Deduction Research Report (891)

 This transaction set can be used by a seller to request information about a deduction from an invoice. It can also be used by a seller's agent or buyer to provide complete details needed to resolve deduction amounts.

EDI Item Information Request (893)

 The transaction set can be used by distributors and brokers to request complete item information from the manufacturers, suppliers, brokers, or agents. The item information will be returned using the Item Maintenance Transaction Set (888). This transaction set can be used also to request product activity. The product activity will be returned using the Product Activity Data Transaction Set (852).

EDI Delivery/Return Base Record (894)

 The transaction set can be used to enable a Direct Store Delivery (DSD) vendor to communicate the details of a DSD delivery and is to be used during the check-in procedure.

EDI Delivery/Return Acknowledgment or Adjustment (895)

 The transaction set can be used to enable a distributor or Direct Store Delivery (DSD) vendor to communicate adjustments to a DSD delivery or to acknowledge the completion of a delivery. The transaction set contains changes to the Delivery/Return Base Record identified during the check-in procedure. A Delivery/Return Acknowledgment and/or Adjustment Transaction containing no changes is considered to be an acceptance of the preceding Base Record or Adjustment. The transaction set will contain only the detail data which is to be changed.

EDI Product Dimension Maintenance (896)

 The transaction set can be used to provide information about the physical characteristics of items for use in computerized shelf space management systems.

EDI Loss or Damage Claim - General Commodities (920)

 The transaction set can be used to file a legal claim with a transportation carrier for loss or damage.

EDI Loss or Damage Claim - Motor Vehicle (924)

 This transaction set can be used to file a legal claim with a carrier for loss or damage to a motor vehicle.

EDI Claim Tracer (925)

 This transaction set can be used by a claimant to request from a carrier the status of a loss or damage claim.

EDI Claim Status Report and Tracer Reply (926)

 This transaction set can be used by a carrier to report the status of a claim to the claimant or to reply to a claim tracer from the claimant.

EDI Automotive Inspection Detail (928)

 This transaction set can be used by automotive manufacturers, inspection agencies, or carriers to report motor vehicle inspection results to other interested parties.

EDI Warehouse Shipping Order (940)

 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.

EDI Warehouse Stock Transfer Shipment Advice (943)

 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.

EDI Warehouse Stock Transfer Receipt Advice (944)

 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.

EDI Warehouse Shipping Advice (945)

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

EDI Delivery Information Message (946)

 Additional delivery information.

EDI Warehouse Inventory Adjustment Advice (947)

 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.

EDI Functional Group Totals (980)

 The transaction set can be used to transmit selected totals and accumulated totals for each type of transaction set contained in a functional group.

EDI Response to a Load Tender (990)

 The transaction set can be used to provide general information relative to a specific shipment. The Response to a Load Tender is used as the response to a Motor Carrier Load Tender Transaction Set (204) which has been used as a load tender.

EDI Secured Receipt or Acknowledgment (993)

 This transaction set provides three distinct security services: the 993 provides security protocol error reporting, non-repudiation of receipt for X12.58 authenticated transaction sets or functional groups, and transmission of authentication independent of the document for which the authentication is rendered. When the 993 is used to pass a dis-embodied signature (non-repudiation of origin), both the transaction set and the 993 with the assurance for the transaction set may be transmitted completely independent of each other. A 993 may be generated as a 'trusted receipt' for a 993 that contained a dis-embodied signature.

EDI Administrative Message (994)

 Additional administrative information.

EDI File Transfer (996)

 This transaction set can be used to transmit file information in formats agreed to by the sending and receiving parties. This transaction set is not intended to replace or bypass the use of existing x12 transaction sets to accommodate internal applications. The transaction set is solely intended for the exchange of formatted electronic accounting machine (EAM), 80 column card images.

EDI Functional Acknowledgment (997)

 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.

EDI Set Cancellation (998)

 The transaction set can be used to request the deletion of a previously transmitted transaction set and will indicate the reason for this action, such as diversion or cancelled bill.

EDI Implementation Acknowledgment (999)

 The transaction set can be used to define the control structures for a set of acknowledgments to indicate the results of the syntactical and relational analysis of the electronically encoded documents, based upon a full or implemented subset of X12 transaction sets. 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.