Thursday, December 1, 2011

EDI Interview Faq

Lets Begin .

1. what is EDI?
Electronic Data Interchange. Exchange business documents between two systems or two partners in a standard (ANSI X12 , EDIFACT etc.)/ pre-defined format (flatfile or csv or xml etc)

2. what are the levels in EDI message format?
There are 3 levels 1. Header 2. Detail 3. Summary (trailer)

3. what are transactions you have worked? For Ex Retail translations 850,997,855,856 and 810 and Logistics transactions like 210,214 ,211 or 204 , 997 etc

4. what are protocols using for communication? For Ex. FTP , SFTP , HTTP, AS2 ,FTPS ,AS3 , Webservices etc.

5. what is the complex transaction set you have worked till now? You can say EDI 856 in ANSI X12 standard which is having multiple levels of mapping
6. what are the difference between ANSI X12 message and EDIFACT messages?
7. How you will validate flat file structure?
8. what are the levels in EDI 856 message format?
9. Can you please tell me some thing about EDI 850 or EDI 810 or EDi 856 messages
10. which field having purchase order number in EDi 850message?
11. what are the different types of purchase orders (EDI 850)?
12. where you can identify the purchase order number in Advance shipment notice (EDI 856) message?
13. can you please explain some thing about ISA and GS envelopes?