In the olden days of yore, Karen's observation would have been correct, but beginning with version 003040UCS, the UCS standard embraced the ISA/GS enveloping that we yanks know and love. UCS is a body that developed standards based on X12, but which specifically addressed the concerns of the grocery products supply chain. Most of their transaction sets closely follow the X12 standards, with the historical exception of the 875 PO and 880 invoice. With version 004010 - the X12 community embraced these two heretofore unique documents. At my previous gig, we did a lot of UCS POs and invoices using 875s and 880s. With the advent of 004010, some of our customers wanted to continue sending these two docs, but under the X12 banner. We simply changed their setups in TLE, and continued to use the same UCS map. No problems. (please read the fine print. This is anecdotal information -- we never bothered to do an in-depth study of the differences.) As far as I could tell, the biggest difference in the two standards for these documents is that UCS uses different values in the GS segment -- specifically, GS07 will contain "T" (meaning TDCC) and GS08 will contain "004010UCS". Art Douglas "Benko, Karen (CAP, PTL)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure what standards body UCS is exactly, but the enveloping is different. Instead of ISA, GS, ST...SE, GE, IEA, UCS uses BG, GS, ST...SE, GE, EG. And yes, the 875 is pretty much the same in v4010 and v4010UCS. Cheers, Karen Benko, Programmer Analyst Penske Logistics Technology Center -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 3:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: UCS Can someone please give me a brief explanation of the difference between an 875 v4010 and an 875 4010UCS? It appears we can implement a 875 v4010 and still suffice the specs for the 4010UCS. Thanks! Appreciate it! ======================================================================= To contact the list owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/edi-l%40listserv.ucop.edu/ ======================================================================= To contact the list owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/edi-l%40listserv.ucop.edu/ ======================================================================= To contact the list owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/edi-l%40listserv.ucop.edu/
