This standard provides the format and establishes the data contents of an order status inquiry transaction set. The order status inquiry transaction set provides the ability 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.
To indicate the start of a transaction set and to assign a control number
To indicate the beginning of an order status inquiry and to provide the type of customer status inquiry.
To transmit information in a free-form format, if necessary, for comment or special instruction
To identify dependencies among and the content of hierarchically related groups of data segments.
To provide reference to a specific purchase order
To specify pertinent dates and times
To specify identifying numbers.
To identify a party by type of organization, name and code
To specify additional names or those longer than 35 characters in length
To specify the location of the named party
To specify the geographic place of the named party
To specify identifying numbers.
To identify a person or office to whom administrative communications should be directed
To specify basic item identification data.
To describe a product or process in coded or free-form format
To specify physical measurements, including dimensions, tolerances, weights and counts.
To transmit a hash total for a specific element in the transaction set
To indicate the end of the transaction set and provide the count of the transmitted segments (including the beginning (ST) and ending (SE) segments).
