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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Financial

X12 Transaction Set
Application Advice	824
Application Control Totals	831
Application for Mortgage Insurance Benefits	260
Condominium Appraisal Report	209
Consolidated Service Invoice/Statement	811
Credit Report	155
Credit/Debit Adjustment	812
Customer Account Analysis	822
Debit Authorization	828
Entitlement Payment Recipient Account Inquiry/Response	156
Financial Information Reporting	821
Financial Payment Return Order/Return Notice	827
Grocery Products Invoice	880
Income Property Appraisal Report	208
Invoice	810
Loan Verification Information	198
Lockbox	823
Mortgage Credit Report	200
Mortgage Credit Report Order	833
Mortgage Loan Default Status	264
Mortgage Note	205
Mortgage Record Change	266
Mortgage Settlement Information	199
Operating Expense Statement	819
Payment Cancellation Request	829
Payment Order/Remittance Advice	820
Product Transfer Account Adjustment	844
Real Estate Mortgage Inspection Request	206
Real Estate Mortgage Inspection Result	207
Real Estate Title Evidence	197
Real Estate Title Insurance Services Order	265
Residential Appraisal Report	262
Residential Appraisal Request	261
Residential Loan Application	201
Residential Mortgage Insurance Application	872
Residential Mortgage Insurance Application Response	263
Response to Product Transfer Account Adjustment	849
Secondary Mortgage Market Investor Report	203
Student Enrollment Verification	190
Student Loan Application	135
Student Loan Guarantee Result	139
Student Loan Pre-Claims and Claims	191
Student Loan Transfer and Status Verification	144

ACORD is an industry supported organization, developing standards designed to integrate data between different software applications used in the insurance and financial services industry such as insurance, reinsurance and related financial services. It covers Life & Annuity, Property & Casualty and Reinsurance industry segments. This industry specific data interchange standard is based on XML DTD. Data interchange with government agencies must still conform to ASC X12N.

X12 Transaction Set	#
Annuity Account Activity	268
Cargo Insurance Advice of Shipment	362
Data Reporting Requirements	253
Insurance Underwriting Information Services	255
Insurance/Annuity Application Status	273
Laboratory Reporting	186
Periodic Annuity Compensation	256
Property and Casualty Loss Notification	272
Report of Injury, Illness or Incident	148
Vehicle Damage	124
Benefit Enrollment and Maintenance	834
Health Care Claim	837
Health Care Claim Payment/Advice	835
Health Care Claim Status Notification	277
Health Care Claim Status Request	276
Health Care Eligibility/Benefit Information	271
Health Care Eligibility/Benefit Inquiry	270
Health Care Service Review Information	278
Patient Information	275

Documents sets for Manufacturing and Retailing

Manufacturing

To minimize inventory levels without jeopardizing service to the production lines manufacturers give suppliers direct view to their inventory levels and share their production schedules. EDI integrates vendors into the production cycle and makes it possible to increase productivity, reduce costs, avoid human errors by electronically processing purchase orders, invoices, shipping notices, payment notices while maintaining compliance with ISO 9000 guidelines.

An in-house integration/interface engine provides manufacturers, vendors and customers full control and independence over their communication systems regardless of the location of the parties in the world and whether they use X12, EDIFACT, XML or other transaction format.

X12 Transaction	#
Purchasing	850
Asset Schedule	851
Clauses and Provisions	504
Grocery Products Purchase Order	875
Grocery Products Purchase Order Change	876
Organizational Relationships	816
Price Authorization Acknowledgment/Status	845
Price/Sales Catalog	832
Pricing History	503
Purchase Order	850
Purchase Order Acknowledgment	855
Purchase Order Change Acknowledgment/Request - Seller Initiated	865
Purchase Order Change Request - Buyer Initiated	860
Request for Quotation	840
Response to Request for Quotation	843

Retailing

National retail chains use different versions of the EDI standards and change them often (insisting, for instance, on an ANSI 3060 810 invoice rather than the ANSI 3040 version they previously used). An in-house Data Interface Engine allows the parties to accommodate the newest as well as the legacy formats without incurring expensive and unreliable software changes.

Documents Sets Healthcare & Pharmaceutical

Healthcare

Before the adoption of the HL7 standards, interfacing two healthcare applications involved negotiations with virtually no ground rules. Vendors would design their own proprietary data exchange and minor differences between vendor formats would become a major source of disagreement and delay. Health Level 7 (HL7) prescribes a standard, structured messaging format for the healthcare industry.

Although it is a structured protocol, HL7 is flexible because it doesn't necessarily recommend that a complete implementation of an interface must include support for the entire hierarchy of protocol features. HL7 is similar to X12 in as much as its architecture is hierarchical, moving from high-level groupings and structures to a set of several hundred data fields. Each level of the hierarchy serves a different organizing purpose.

HL7’s purpose is to facilitate communications in healthcare settings. The primary goal is to provide standards for the exchange of data among healthcare computer applications that eliminate or substantially reduce the custom interface programming and program maintenance that may otherwise be required.

Under HIPAA the US Government has adopted nine of the X12 standards as the EDI protocol to exchange information with healthcare providers regarding health insurance claims। Consequently healthcare providers' information systems operating on HL7 standards need to establish the appropriate interface to the X12 environment.

X12 Transaction Set	#
Benefit Enrollment and Maintenance	834
Health Care Claim	837
Health Care Claim Payment/Advice	835
Health Care Claim Status Notification	277
Health Care Claim Status Request	276
Health Care Eligibility/Benefit Information	271
Health Care Eligibility/Benefit Inquiry	270
Health Care Service Review Information	278
Patient Information	275

Pharmaceutical

This industry which is also covered under HIPAA and by FDA's strict regulations is making ample use of the capabilities and flexibilities afforded by EDI. Mergers between companies (in some cases from different countries) and Electronic Commerce are business situations where EDI with a Data Interface Engine becomes an efficient and effective operational tool. The following table shows a typical application of X12 transactions implemented by a major pharmaceutical company.

Business Group	X12	Description
Accounts Payable	110	Air Freight Details and Invoice
	210	Motor Carrier Freight Details and Invoice
	810	Invoice
	811	Consolidated Service Invoice/Statement
	820	Payment Order/Remittance Advice
	820	Payment Order/Remittance Advice (ACH)
	831	Application Control Totals
	997	Functional Acknowledgement

Accounts Receivable	820	Payment Order/Remittance Advice
	823	Lockbox
	997	Functional Acknowledgment

Consumer	213	Motor Carrier Shipment Status Inquiry
	214	Transportation Carrier Shipment Status Message
	810	Invoice
	850	Purchase Order
	856	Ship Notice/Manifest
	864	Text Message
	875	Grocery Products Purchase Order
	880	Grocery Products Invoice
	997	Functional Acknowledgment

Purchasing	850	Purchase Order
	997	Functional Acknowledgment

Internal Operations	213	Motor Carrier Shipment Status Inquiry
	214	Transportation Carrier Shipment Status Message
	810	Invoice
	832	Price/Sales Catalog
	844	Product Transfer Account Adjustment
	849	Response To Product Transfer Account Adjustment
	850	Purchase Order
	852	Product Activity Data
	997	Functional Acknowledgment

ODETTE

The ODETTE standard consists of over thirty messages for deployment in the automotive industry and reflects the industry's use of JIT ("Just in Time") methods. The messages can use either EDIFACT or TRADACOMS service segments.

ODETTE International currently has 6 European members including ODETTE UK, which is managed in association with SMMT (Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders).

TRADACOMS

Developed by the ANA (Article Numbering Association) in 1982 for the UK retail industry it is currently the most widely used standard in the UK within this market. It defines standards for 30+ trading documents. Due to the more specific nature of TRADACOMS messages, the standard is not generally broken down into subsets. Some examples are listed below:

Subset Name/Acronym	Industry/Organisation	Comments
BEDIS (BIC BASIC)	Book Industry Supply Chain Steering Committee
InStep	Insurance industry. Administered by Polaris UK.	Previously known as BROKERNET and administered by Association of British Insurers

ANSI X12

US standards under the control of ANSI (American National Standards Institute) have developed separately from Europe.

The ANSI X12 committee specified standards for transaction sets, a data element dictionary, and transmission control. Direct comparisons can be found with standards developed in Europe, but the American standards are used differently.

The ANSI X12 standard is used in the USA, Canada and to a degree in Australia. The X12 transaction sets cover a wide range of industry sectors, including administration, education, finance and government:

Subset Name/Acronym	Industry/Organisation	Comments
HL7	Health Level Seven	The ANSI accredited standards developer for EDI in healthcare environments. Based on the ANSI standards, with the data presented within a default ASCII (American Standards Committee) character set, HL7 is formally accredited by ASC X12, as opposed to a number of communities who have developed their EDI standards based on the X12 syntax, e.g. SPEC 2000.
SPEC 2000	Air Transport Association of America Specification 2000	Procurement and repair transactions for aircraft maintenance.