UN/EDIFACT message sample: further comments

Let's have a closest look at the contents of our INVOIC sample. By EDI Notepad I took a snap shot of the Interchage details:









Then, a snap shot of the Message general infos:
















And a snap shot of the Items of the Transaction:

All the data are stored into a segment with the proper qualifier; so if , for instance we need to figure out the buyer, we have to deal with the Name and Adress segment (NAD):

NAD+BY+792820524::16++CUMMINS MID-RANGE ENGINE PLANT'

Here we can find the buyer details (qualifier BY is used to give to the party the Buyer role) with the corresponding D-U-N-S code (792820524) and its description (CUMMINS MID-RANGE ENGINE PLANT).

If we want to refer to INVOIC D97B implementation guide, then we can summarize NAD infos as follow:

(click to enalrge)


The same can be done with the remaining segments of the message.