Information on EDI documents
When you open an EDI document, you would generally find the same information that would usually be found in a paper document used for same organization function. For example, an EDI 940 ship-from-warehouse order is used by a manufacturer to tell a warehouse to ship products to a certain retailer. Typically, there is a ship-to address, a bill-to address, a list of product numbers (most often a UPC code), and quantities. Of course, there may be more information, if there is an agreement on the part of both the parties to include it. But you should know that EDI is not just about business data related to trade, but instead it encompasses all fields like medicine (for example, laboratory results and patient records), transport (for example, modal and container information), as well as engineering and construction information. Sometimes, EDI would be used for the creation of a new business information flow that was not a paper flow before.