EDIFACT stands for Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport. EDIFACT is accepted as the international EDI standard that has been adopted by organisations wishing to trade in a global context. A standard set of syntax rules have been ratified by the United Nations. The EDIFACT standards cover transaction sets (the business documents that you wish to transmit), data element directories and syntax rules which cover delimiter characters etc.
| TRANSACTION SET/DOCUMENT | ANSI SET | EDIFACT |
| PRODUCT/PRICING TRANSACTIONS | ||
| Price Sales Catalog | 832 | PRICAT |
| Price Authorization Acknowledgement/Status | 845 | ATHSTS |
| Specification/Technical Information | 841 | PRDSPE |
| Request For Quotation | 840 | REQOTE |
| Response To Request For Quotation | 843 | QUOTES |
| Electronic Bid Form | 833 | -- |
| ORDERING TRANSACTIONS | ||
| Purchase Order | 850 | ORDERS |
| Purchase Order Acknowledgement | 855 | ORDRSP |
| Purchase Order Change | 860 | ORDCHG |
| Purchase Order Change Acknowledgement | 865 | ORDRSP |
| Order Status Inquiry | 869 | ORSSTA |
| Order Status Report | 870 | ORDREP |
| Contract Award | 836 | -- |
| Product Activity Data | 852 | SLSRPT |
| MATERIALS MANAGEMENT TRANSACTIONS | ||
| Planning Schedule/Material Release | 830 | DELFOR |
| Shipping Schedule | 862 | DELJIT |
| Production Sequence | 866 | -- |
| Ship Notice/manifest (ASN) | 856 | DESADV |
| Report of Test Results | 863 | QALITY |
| Material Safety Data Sheet | 848 | -- |
| Contract Award | 836 | -- |
| SHIPPING/RECEIVING TRANSACTIONS | ||
| Shipment Information (Bill of Lading) | 858 | IFTMCS |
| Receiving Advice | 861 | RECADV |
| Non-conformance Information-Disposition Transaction, Cause/Correction | 842 | NONCON |
| INVENTORY MANAGEMENT TRANSACTIONS | ||
| Inventory Inquiry/Advice | 846 | INVRPT |
| Product Transfer and Resale Report | 867 | -- |
| Product Transfer Account Adjustment | 844 | SSDCLM |
| Response To Product Transfer Account Adjustment | 849 | -- |
| FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS | ||
| Invoice | 810 | INVOIC |
| Freight Invoice | 859 | IFTMCS |
| Payment order/Remittance Advice (EFT) | 820 | REMADV |
| Lockbox | 823 | -- |
| Financial Information Reporting | 821 | -- |
| HEALTHCARE TRANSACTIONS | ||
| Eligibility Inquiry | 270 | -- |
| Eligibility Inquiry Response | 271 | -- |
| Claim Status Inquiry | 276 | -- |
| Claim Status Response | 277 | -- |
| Service Review Request | 278-13 | -- |
| Service Review Response | 278-11 | -- |
| Premium Payment and Deduction | 820 | -- |
| Benefit Enrollment and Maintenance | 834 | -- |
| Claim Remittance Advice | 835 | -- |
| Claim (Professional, Institutional, Dentist) | 837 | -- |
| CONTROL TRANSACTIONS | ||
| Functional Acknowledgement | 997 | CONTRL |
| Application Advice | 824 | APERAK |
| Trading Partner Profile | 838 | PARTIN |