Introduction to EDI X12

Explore the breadth of EDI X12 messages across 16 families identified by three-character codes, focusing on orders and transportation, with brief health care coverage and examples like 850 and 810.

PowerShell demonstrates organizing and formatting EDI X12 files on disk, parsing fields like interchange control number and order date, renaming files with preserved timestamps, and testing in a safe archive.

Learn how the ISA header and footer enclose an EDI X12 interchange, including the fixed-length ISA, the three delimiters, and the matching trailer with segment counts and control numbers.

Examine the GS header and ST header, their envelope structure, and how functional groups and transaction sets organize an EDI file, including batching and group control concepts.

Analyze the 997 functional acknowledgment in detail, including AK1/AK2/AK5/AK9 structures, control numbers, and accepted vs rejected codes, illustrated with Harley Davidson examples.

Explore Edifecs Specbuilder/XEngine as a commercial tool for defining HIPAA and X12 rules, generating implementation and companion guides, and validating claims with a Windows-based engine and PDF outputs.

Explore ecommerce edi x12 messages, detailing the purchase order flow from 850 to 855, 856, and 810, with inventory updates and ERP integration.

Explore the edi x12 855 acknowledgement, echoing the 850 with an ac and a back segment. Learn the ack segment for line-item acceptance, backorder, and codes like 84 accepted.

Learn how to implement the 856 advanced shipping notice in EDI X12, including BSN begin segment, hierarchical HL levels, shipment IDs, and palletized cross-dock scenarios for Lowe's.

Analyze the edi 846 inventory document, including bia begin inventory advice, warehouse data, contact details, line items with product codes and quantities, pid descriptions, and ctt line count.

Learn motor carrier EDI messages and the four core documents: 204 load tender, 990 status, 214 status messages, and 210 invoice. Identify scac codes, stops, milk runs, and key manifests.

Explore how the EDI 980 responds to a load tender, focusing on the B1 beginning segment, acceptance codes, AK1 remarks, N9 references, and optional S5 stop details.

Analyze a HIPAA 837 professional claim using a companion guide to interpret envelope structure, HL hierarchy, diagnosis and procedure codes, and service line details.

Explore how trading partner management in BizTalk uses AS2 agreements to connect parties, specify as2 identifiers, and configure signing, encryption, acknowledgments, and MDM delivery via sin ports.

Learn how to configure X12 agreements in BizTalk, manage identifiers, ISO headers, validation, acknowledgments, batching, and envelope settings for inbound and outbound EDI messages.

Explore ports and receive locations in BizTalk, configuring EDI pipelines and adapters like AS2 or FTP/SFTP, with optional validation and X12 agreement mapping.

Demonstrate building a simple C# console parser for an EDI 850 file during a live coding session, splitting data by line and element separators and printing segments.

Map an edi 850 purchase order into a public class with po number, po date, and po type using a switch on element name, parse exact date, and error handling.

Learn how to parse an EDI X12 850 purchase order by mapping repeating segments (ref, po, pid, dtm) to variables, handling multiple line items, and deciding which fields to store.

Parse an EDI 850 purchase order, focusing on repeating PO1 line items, building an in-memory purchase order with a line item list, then convert to SQL or XML.

Serialize a C# object to XML and save it to disk, then deserialize the XML back into memory, using an XML serializer and helper class.

Create an EDI 850 from a PO object by converting to an interim XML, then map XML to EDI with C# and StringBuilder.

Convert a PO 850 from XML to EDI using a two-step workflow: generate EDI XML from XML with mapping and XPath, then create the final EDI with ISA/GS headers.