TRADACOMS

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Tradacoms is an early standard for EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) primarily used in the UK retail sector. It was introduced in 1982 as an implementation of the UN/GTDI syntax, one of the precursors of EDIFACT, and was maintained and extended by the UK Article Numbering Association (now called GS1 UK).

The standard is obsolescent since development of it effectively ceased in 1995 in favour of the GS1 EDI EANCOM subsets. Despite this it has proved durable and the majority of the retail EDI traffic in the UK still uses it.

There are 25 transactions defined in Tradacoms:

  1. THE PRODUCT INFORMATION FILE
  2. THE PRICE INFORMATION FILE
  3. THE CUSTOMER INFORMATION FILE
  4. THE ORDER FILE
  5. THE PICKING INSTRUCTIONS FILE
  6. THE DELIVERY NOTIFICATION FILE
  7. THE DELIVERY CONFIRMATION FILE
  8. THE INVOICE FILE
  9. THE CREDIT NOTE FILE
  10. THE STATEMENT/REMITTANCE DETAILS FILE
  11. THE UPLIFT INSTRUCTION FILE
  12. THE UPLIFT CONFIRMATION FILE
  13. THE STOCK SNAPSHOT FILE
  14. THE STOCK ADJUSTMENT FILE
  15. THE AVAILABILITY REPORT FILE
  16. THE GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS FILE
  17. THE COMPLEX ORDER FILE
  18. THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ORDER FILE
  19. THE PRODUCT PLANNING REPORT FILE
  20. THE PAYMENT ORDER FILE
  21. THE DEBIT ADVICE FILE
  22. THE CREDIT ADVICE FILE
  23. THE EXCEPTION CONDITION FILE
  24. THE LOCATION PLANNING REPORT FILE
  25. THE UTILITY BILL FILE

There are additional transactions defined for use in the Insurance Industry which use the Tradacoms syntax, but with implicit nesting. The service is known as Brokernet and was established in 1986.

The UK Book Trade also has additional transactions defined for Orders, Issues, and Price & Availability Updates. There are industry message variants for the News Trade, Textiles and Home Shopping.

Syntax and usage

Sample Tradacoms Order

References

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