This Draft Standard for Trial Use provides the format and establishes the data contents of the Item Maintenance Transaction Set (888) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. 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. This transaction set can be used to provide information about new products or changes existing product specifications.
Price changes will not be sent with this transaction set, but can be sent with the Price Change Transaction Set (879).
To indicate the start of a transaction set and to assign a control number
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 transmit identifying numbers and descriptive information as specified by the reference number qualifier
To identify a person or office to whom communications should be directed
To transmit information in a free-form format, if necessary, for comment or special instruction
To identify the specific type of item maintenance.
To specify pertinent dates and times
To transmit information in a free-form format, if necessary, for comment or special instruction
To provide physical characteristics relative to a vendor's selling unit.
To describe an item in free-form format
To specify the terms of sale
To specify pertinent dates and times
To provide price list references and description
To specify vendor's conditions related to price change
To specify the geographic area in which a promotion or price is in effect
To reference a promotion number related to the price change
To provide a vendor's pricing structure associated with a specific line item
To identify price bracket values
To specify unit amount and method of payment for a charge/allowance for a line item
To describe the UPC Case Codes in a module.
To provide physical characteristics relative to a consumer unit.
To describe an item in free-form format
To indicate the end of the transaction set and provide the count of the transmitted segments (including the beginning (ST) and ending (SE) segments).
