ASC X12 Standards (005010)

Designed for everyone

• Session One: ASC Standards Introduction
  This session emphasizes how the standards support normal business processes. It teaches how to understand the details of the standards manual. It discusses the changes you can expect in the life of the standard. Become familiar with important basic terminology.
  
  
• Session Two: Getting Started in Mapping
  This session builds upon the prior session to discuss the process of mapping data from your application format to the standard format. It includes an in-class exercise in which the participants perform a mapping of a paper purchase order to the ASC X12 purchase order (850) transaction. It identifies the details required and the decisions which must be made in a normal business environment. It helps the participant understand which questions can be answered by the technical staff and which must be answered by the responsible business units.
  
  
• Session Three: ASC X12 Envelopes
  This session identifies the detailed contents of the EDI envelopes which are currently in use. It identifies how these envelopes are used in many EDI environments. It also stresses how the envelopes assist the EDI user with audit and control requirements in their daily EDI activity. It includes an exercise in which the participants create an envelope consistent with the purchase order used in Session Two.
  
  
• Session Four: ASC X12 Acknowledgements & ASC X12 Standards Process
  This session explains the details of the functional acknowledgement and its use. It stresses how the acknowledgement can be used in auditing and problem resolution. The participants create a functional acknowledgement and envelope consistent with the purchase order exercise in Session Two. This session also contains a short introduction to the process of creating or changing X12 standards. It identifies how you can participate in the process to assure that the standards meet your business needs.
  
  
• Session Five: Invoice Exercise
  During this session the participants perform another mapping exercise. They create significant portions of the invoice which might result from the purchase order of Session Two. It emphasizes the similarities of the documents, and what is frequently involved in the processing of a "turnaround document".