This Draft Standard for Trial Use contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Order Status Inquiry Transaction Set (869) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used 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 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 information
To specify basic item identification data
To describe a product or process in coded or free-form format
To specify physical measurements or counts, including dimensions, tolerances, variances, and weights
(See Figures Appendix for example of use of C001)
To specify quantity information
To transmit financial accounting data
To specify information related to furnished material, equipment, property, information, and services
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 information
To identify a person or office to whom administrative communications should be directed
To transmit standard code list identification information
Code to transmit standard industry codes
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)
