EDI Document Type -102 Associated Data
What is a 102 Associated Data document?
The 102 Associated Data document contains information regarding the Associated Data Transaction Set (102) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment.Standard EDI formats include X12, ANSI, EDIFACT and its subsets.Click here to read more about supported EDI Standards.
What makes up the 102 Associated Data document?
A 102 Associated Data document is organized into the following segment and data elements. A segment can contain at least one data element. Each data element contains a data field. Examples of data elements on the 102 EDI document includes the information necessary to uniquely identify an object, is defined as a package. Object may include graphic, text, parametric, tabular, image, and spectral, audio, etc data.
How is it used?
The purpose of 102 Associated Data document is to convey associated data. Associated data is an object, a set of functionality-related information not using the usual transaction set structure in segments.
The Process and Standards
An EDI solution is required to process the EDI documents received into a financial system (click here to view all available financial systems eBridge integrates into) or into a readable format for manual entry. Each trading partner will have an EDI Implementation guide outlining the specific segments, data elements, values accepted, and the applicable business rules to be followed.
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