ORDHIR Order Message for Hire Working - Eurofer

UN/EDIFACT D93.A ORDHIR - Order message for hire working
ORDER MESSAGE FOR HIRE WORKING
0. INTRODUCTION
This document provides the definition of the EUROFER subset of the ORDER
message to be used for hire working activities between steel producers. The subset is
based on the UN standard ORDERS message of the UN/EDIFACT directory D93.A.
This message has been created by the EDIFER "Hire working activities" working
group. The message is to be used in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) between
partners involved in the steel industry.
The manual has been structured in the following format:
- A Data Model definition describes the data entities, attributes and their
relationships.
- The scope describes the field of application, principles and message usage.
- The message definition covers the structure, the entity/attribute mapping and how
the data described in the data model relate to the message.
- The message definition outlines the general structure of the message and specifies
the use of each segment group and, or segment.
- Based on the branching diagram of the original EDIFACT message "Orders", the
segments used are indicated. This is followed by a detailed segment description of
the segments used by Eurofer.
- Examples of Eurofer messages for some Order sheets for hire working between
steel producers are provided to clarify the understanding of the message
description.
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