| # Conversion table for order types (out) Use order types for those EDI messages that pertain to a single Order, such as orders, order changes, acknowledgments, and invoices. For outgoing EDI messages related to these documents, you must fill in the conversion table for order types (out). This table specifies the correct conversion of codes and determines which LN order, acknowledgment, or invoice types can be sent through EDI. For example, purchase orders of the type PN3 can only be sent through EDI when the code PN3 is present in the conversion table (although it can be converted to a blank code). All valid order types sent through EDI, along with the corresponding code in the message as specified in the code tables, need to be identified in the conversion table for order types (out). For example, the code in the application (the code in application field) represents the order type (such as PN3) on the LN purchase order change document, and the code in the message (the code in message field)represents the external value that is included in the outgoing message file(s). The code in message is the value to which the code in application will be converted and that will reside in the exported message when the document (for example, the outgoing purchase order) is exported through LN EDI. The code in message must first be defined as an order type in the code tables and can be used to represent the order types used by the current EDI standard for example, the ANSI X12 purchase order type code. |