EDIdEv - Electronic Data Interchange Development

The table below highlights the difference between the EDI X12 standard and EDIFACT standard.

Topic		ANSI X12	UN/EDIFACT
Application		Mostly  used in North America	Mostly used in Europe and Asia
Terminologies Equivalence		Transaction Sets	Messages
		Loops	Groups
		Terminators	Separators
Interchange Header/Trailer Segments		ISA/IEA	UNB/UNZ
Group  Header/Trailer Segments		GS/GE	UNG/UNE (optional)
Transaction Set, (Message) Header/Trailer		ST/SE	UNH/UNT
Separators Specification Segment		ISA	UNA (optional)
Commonly used Terminators, (Separators)	Segment	~	'
	Element	*	+
	Composite	>	:
Release Indicator		Not supported	Supported
Composite Elements		Rarely used	Commonly Used
Acknowledgment		TA1 and 997	CONTRL
Binary support		BIN, BDS segments	ISO 9735-8 - Associated data in EDI
¹Security		ASC X12.58 - Security Structures	- ISO 9735-5 - Security rules for batch EDI (authenticity, integrity and non-repudiation of origin)   - ISO 9735-6 - Secure authentication and acknowledgement message (message type - AUTACK)   - ISO 9735-7 - Security rules for batch EDI (confidentiality)   - ISO 9735-9 - Security key and certificate management message (message type - KEYMAN)

¹ UN/EDIFACT Security rules are not currently supported in Framework EDI

Below is a diagram of the control segments of an ASC X12 format

Below is a diagram of the control segments of a UN/EDIFACT format

The EDIdEv Framework EDI component supports both the X12 and UN/EDIFACT standards.  It is basically an EDI parser, which you would reference in your program so that you can quickly create EDI solutions to support EDI files from both these standards.  Download the example programs to see how easily it can be done.

Click here to download example programs that generate, translate and acknowledge X12 EDI files.

To download example programs that process UN/EDIFACT  EDI files, click here.

 

    Click here to evaluate the Framework EDI     

 

Related Topics

• What is EDI?
• Creating an EDI Translator