Glossary

ANSIAmerican National Standards Institute: oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States

Clearing Center / EDI Service Provider

In case, the assistance of a Clearing Center / EDI Service Provider is required, please get in contact them.

DESADV

Despatch Advice: Electronic delivery slip in EDIFACT format. It contains the information regarding which articles were delivered to which stores at what time. 

EAN

See GTIN

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange: Electronic data exchange between business partners (B2B).

EDIFACT

Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport: Standard message format for the exchange of electronic data.

GDSN

Global Data Synchronization Network: Pool of article master data that we supply with data and which can be accessed by our partners.

GLN

Global Location Number: Location number, formerly ILN. Allows the clear, unmistakable identification of locations, also storage locations or stores. Beeline group is also identified via a GLN and currently uses different GLNs for each brand.

GS1 Germany

GS1 Germany accompanies the development and implementation of open, inter-industry, worldwide standards. Central process and application recommendations are developed based on this, e.g. EDIFACT. It is also responsible for the issuing and assignment of GLNs.

GTIN

Global Trade Item Number: Article number, formerly EAN. Used for the clear and unmistakable identification of articles. Currently, the first seven digits designate the brand within the beeline group.

ILN

See GLN

INVOIC

Invoice: Electronic invoice or credit note in the EDIFACT format that contains all information regarding the goods being invoiced.

INVRPT

Inventory report: An EDIFACT message that shows the current inventory at the POS.

PRICAT

Price list and catalogue: An EDIFACT message sent to the partner with the article master data. It contains descriptive, logical information regarding the articles.

SLSRPT

Sales report: An EDIFACT message that provides detailed information regarding the sold articles, optimizes and secures the automatic article replenishment process.