Electronic Data Interchange — the decades-old, rigidly formatted standard large retailers use to exchange purchase orders, shipping notices and invoices with suppliers.
Electronic Data Interchange — the decades-old, rigidly formatted standard large retailers use to exchange purchase orders, shipping notices and invoices with suppliers.
Most major retailers will not onboard a supplier without it, and a malformed 856 (the ASN) is one of the most common chargebacks there is.
Every term here is one the protocol actually uses, defined for somebody who was never taught it — with the part that usually goes wrong. All terms →