Use Liaiason's EDI Notepad to decypher x12 and EDIFACT
Liaison's EDI Notepad is an awesome tool that can make life much easier for EDI users, EDI coordinators, and business analysts.
Take the scenario below, we received a rejected 997 and we have no clue what went wrong and the 997 AK segments are very cryptic
Raw 997 EDI Data
ISA*00* *00* *01*113073472ICC *12*5705036114 *130320*0130*U*00401*000000271*0*P*>~
GS*FA*113073472ICC*5705036114*20130320*0130*14416*X*004010~
ST*997*0001~
AK1*SH*25~
AK2*856*0001~
AK3*SLN*18~
AK4*1*0*1~
AK5*R*5~
AK9*R*1*1*0~
SE*8*0001~
GE*1*14416~
IEA*1*000000271~
997 EDI Data with EDI Notepad
With EDI Notepad we can determine how to interpret a 'bad' 997.
By: Sean Hoppe on