GenTran 5.1 User Manual

Gentran:Server for Windows User’s Guide

Gentran:Server for Windows – November 2005

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Another company with which your company trades documents. Also referred to 
as a partner.

A business form as defined by the standards. Examples include an ANSI 850 
purchase order or an UCS 880 invoice. The standards define each transaction set 
in terms of the segments and elements that make up the form, the order in which 
they appear, and the relationships among them. This is also known as a “message” 
in Europe.

A document into which data elements from the source document have been 
automatically transferred using a turnaround map.

A series of instructions that the system uses to create a turnaround document (a 
logical response document to the source) from an inbound (source) document, by 
transferring data from the source document to elements in the target document 
(translation object).

The Uniform Communications Standard is the standard used by the grocery 
industry.

This function enables you to move a document previously posted to the Out 
Documents back to the Workspace for further processing.

A formal update of an EDI standard. Each standards-setting body updates its 
standards on a regular basis.

For documents, this function enables you to display the raw EDI data, a formatted 
document using a translation object, or a translator report, depending on the 
format selected. For interchanges, this function enables you to display the raw 
EDI data or a translator report, depending on the format selected.

The Voluntary Inter-industry Communication Standards is the standards-setting 
body for the retail industry, a subset of ANSI X12.

The Workspace contains a list of outbound “Work in Progress” documents. It also 
contains recently imported or data entry documents.

The ANSI committee that sets and publishes standards for EDI.