The EDI 832 format
The EDI 832 allows for the efficient and accurate transfer of product and pricing information between trading partners. It reduces errors associated with manual data entry and helps streamline the supply chain and procurement processes.
The EDI 832 document, often referred to as a Price/Sales Catalog, contains detailed information about the supplier’s products, including but not limited to:
How is the EDI 832 used?
Think of the EDI 832 as a digital catalog that stores use to share information about products. Similar to when you scroll through a website to see which items are available for purchase, businesses use the EDI 832 document to see which products they can buy or sell. The information is shared electronically—almost like a super detailed email.
EDI 832 FAQs:
What's in the EDI 832?
Why use the EDI 832?
How does the EDI 832 make shopping easier?
Benefits of using an EDI 832 price/sales catalog
Implementing the 832 price/sales catalog offers benefits to both the retailer or distributor (receiver of the EDI 832 document) and the supplier (sender of the EDI 832 document).
Retailer and distributor benefits
Supplier benefits
Common issues regarding EDI 832
Forced data hierarchy:
The EDI 832 (also known as X12 832 and EDIFACT PRICAT) requires a strict data hierarchy between selection code, product code and catalog that may not match how a supplier categorizes its products. This causes additional work and requires suppliers to artificially augment their data in order to match the prescribed hierarchy.
Limited attributes:
The EDI 832 only accommodates a limited set of data attributes. Some retailers require additional attributes such as length, width or height of an item, image data and extended pricing information. For those attributes, suppliers will have to supplement the data in the EDI 832 document with a spreadsheet.
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