This Draft Standard for Trial Use provides the format and establishes the data content of the Store Characteristics Transaction Set (885) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. 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, types of electronic marketing, etc. to a trading partner.
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 pertinent dates and times
To identify a person or office to whom administrative communications should be directed
To designate the entities which are parties to a transaction and specify a reference meaningful to those entities
To identify the specific type of item maintenance.
To specify pertinent dates and times
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 identify a person or office to whom administrative communications should be directed
To identify a party by type of organization, name and code
To transmit identifying numbers and descriptive information as specified by the reference number qualifier
To indicate the type and size characteristics of a retail store
To identify the shelf size of a department or product category within a retail store
To specify product display information for a retail store
To identify the type and number of electronic marketing equipment or programs in a retail store
To indicate the end of the transaction set and provide the count of the transmitted segments (including the beginning (ST) and ending (SE) segments).
