How are the EDI Implementation Conventions Developed?
Implementation Conventions are developed through a joint effort of functional, business, technical, and EDI ASC X12 standards experts. These experts come together and participate in a functional Work group. (See the Work Group Information section on the FedeBiz home page http://www.bta.mil/FedeBiz/index.shtml.) After defining the business data requirements, the work group selects a transaction set that best matches the data and overall business purpose. The transaction set must then be tailored for that specific business’ use by “mapping” each data requirement to a corresponding data element within the transaction set.
