Vendor Standards Manual - Saks Incorporated

Appendix
EDI TERMINOLOGY
ASN
Advance Ship Notice, electronic packing slip, or “856”.
AUTOMATIC REPLENISHMENT
The ability to reorder merchandise by sending cash register or POS (point of sale) sales information to a vendor and having the
merchandise replenished immediately via EDI transactions.
EAN
European Article Number – a 13 digit vendor number, the European equivalent of a UPC code
EDI
All-inclusive phase for Electronic Data Interchange transactions. Ability to transmit EDI transaction types varies with each vendor.
FLOOR READY
Term referring to merchandise that is received ready to be placed directly on the selling floor.
MANUFACTURER ID
The first six digits of the UPC number. This ID may be used to identify the manufacturer. A single manufacturer may have multiple
manufacturer Ids.
PID
Product information number or vendor style number.
SKU
Stock keeping unit
GS1-128
Scanable bar-coded label with unique SSCC 18 serialized carton code, located on the outside of a shipping carton.
UPC
Universal Product Code – a 12 digit unique vendor “SKU” number. The first six digits are a manufacturer identifier number, the
next 5 digits are a specific product identifier (SKU), and the last digit is a check digit.
VAN
Value Added Network – the designated communication network used to transmit and receive EDI transactions.
VICS
Voluntary Inter-industry Commerce Solutions for EDI transactions established by GS1 US.
VMR
Vendor Managed Replenishment – vendor “Basic Stock” system that automatically creates purchase orders and replenishes
merchandise based on sales and model information via EDI 852 sales and 855 Reverse Purchase Order transactions.
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Transaction Sets
810 – Electronic invoice 852 – Sales transmission to the vendor
832 – Electronic UPC catalog 855 – Reverse or Vendor Generated PO
850 – Electronic purchase order 856 – ASN or Advance Ship Notice
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