EDI In Retail

Retail businesses have been exchanging documents electronically for over 30 years.  The first standards were laid out during the 1980's with the formation of ANSI X12 and the VICS EDI Retail Users Group. During the 1990's, the major retail hubs encouraged participation throughout the supply chain by supporting standards, offering education through trading partner conferences, providing implementation assistance via the value added networks, and encouraging compliance via chargebacks for non-compliance.  

Although there has been much talk of replacing EDI with XML or VAN's with the Internet, the reality of today's EDI implementations is that the original standards are still viable and heavily implemented throughout the retail industry.  Millions of EDI transactions pass between retailers and their supply chain every day.  Some of these transactions travel through traditional Value Added Networks, some are exchanged over the Internet, and some are sent with direct connections.

			What's New In Retail EDI Programs

January, 2006, JCPenney has revised the UCC 128 shipping carton labels. JCPenney also has a new Load Management Center effective January 9, 2006 and vendor's using the 753/754 should review the associated changes to the 754.

Federated Department Stores has established May Company to Macy's Store Listings for systems and DC conversions effective 4/30/2006, 5/28/2006, and 7/2/2006.

Kohl's has enhanced their 856 Advance Ship Notice (ASN) to include a new retransmission process for incorrect ASN's.

In June 2005, the Uniform Code Council (UCC) and European Article Numbering (EAN) merged into a new entity, GS1.  From their new website, "GS1 is the new name for the combined legacies of UCC, EAN International and its expanding member organization base. GS1 formally combines the world's most accepted standards system, the EAN.UCC System, into one organization with no geographic or industry boundaries."

In May, 2005, May Department Stores announced that they are migrating their former QRS/IBM VAN traffic to the Inovis VAN.

Beginning in May, the 860 document will be a required EDI document for Target.

In April, 2005, Federated Department Stores announced that they wlil be migrating their VAN traffic to Inovis and will continue to use the Inovis Catalogue (formerly QRS Catalogue).

Dillard's is currently migrating vendors to 4050VICs and has introduced new transactions including the 812 Credit/Debit Adjustment, 820 Remittance Advice, 753 Request for Routing, and 754 Routing Instructions.

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