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Many retailers and suppliers benefit from getting sales and retail inventory data. These data elements come via the EDI 852 document.
The EDI 852 document provides detailed product activity of the items they are selling in their locations (stores).
There’s 2 specific areas the activity data an EDI 852 document provides:
- The POS (point of sale) information of sales
- Current products inventory
With these 2 areas of information the detailed components consist of:
- POS – units sold by SKU
- POS – units sold in retail OR wholesale
- Inventory – On hand quantities by SKU detail
These components can be summarized by either a physical store location OR distribution center depending on the suppliers setup.
The EDI 852 information provided to both the retailer and supplier facilitate key retail metrics calculated to measure performance levels. Some example metrics and tasks that the EDI 852 data can help with are:
- Sell Thru %
- Days/Weeks of Supply
- Sales forecasting
- YTD Sales, MTD, and WTD sales
- Year over year, month over month comparisons
- Replenishment of product
The 852 EDI file typically is exchanged in an X12 format. A typical raw example is shown below.
ISA*00* *00* *08*925485US00 *12*5551234567 *211215*2308*:*00501*852100583*0*P*>
GS*PD*925485US00*5551234567*20211218*2308*852100583*X*005010
ST*852*100583
XQ*H*20211214
N9*IA*740012560
N9*FI*01ST
N1*FR*WALMART*UL*0078742000008
N1*TO*GROWER FARMS LLC.
DTM*097*20211218
LIN*000001*UP*783975629553*IN*577321454*VN*63033
PO4*1
ZA*QS*13*EA
LIN*000002*UP*783975611474*IN*577472754*VN*611463
PO4*1
ZA*QS*2*EA
LIN*000003*UP*783975656942*IN*586246840*VN*656952
PO4*1
ZA*QS*6*EA
CTT*23
SE*78*100694
GE*1*852100694
IEA*1*852100694
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Summary
When communicating with larger retailers for EDI like Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, Tractor Supply, or others a 753 document is a request for routing sent from a supplier to a buyer.
GrowerEDI provides a knowledgeable, experienced EDI data partner that can ease the EDI process, improve data flows, automate interactions, and provide data transformations to give you actionable, usable data.
If you need EDI or currently use EDI to transmit data to and from your trading partners GrowerEDI is a concierge EDI service that can help you improve your EDI experience and automation. Contact us today to learn more.
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