NAGASA - Where can I get additional information?

Where can I get additional information?

To assist you with you EDI activities, the North American Graphic Arts Suppliers Association (NAGASA) has developed the NAGASA Electronic Commerce Implementation Guideline, an EDI implementation guide for the distribution channel for the printing and imaging process. This comb-bound document includes information about:

• The background to EDI and how it works
  
• Details pertaining to getting started
  
• The EDI code of practice
  
• Structural technology needed
  
• Automated data collection and the linkage to EDI
  
• Mapping conventions
  

Distribution channel implementation of the ANSI 3010 documents for the:

• 810 Invoice
  
• 820 Payment Order
  
• 832 Price/Sales Catalog
  
• 849 Response to Product
  
• 850 Purchase Order
  
• 855 Purchase Order Acknowledgment
  
• 856 Advance Ship Notice/Manifest
  
• 867 Dealer Sell Through
  
• 997 Functional Acknowledgment
  
• Glossary
  

Symbology specifications for automated data collection
Information about the Graphics Industry Bar Code (GIBC)
Information about printing bar codes

NAGASA's Electronic Commerce Committee maintains the EDI transaction sets and publishes updates in the NAGASA members-only section of the web page. The industry is currently migrating to implementation of the 4010 version of these documents.

Supplier members of NAGASA's Electronic Commerce Committee have also offered implementation assistance to users, as have consultants working with the Committee.

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