850 Purchase Order
AmerisourceBergen · X12 004010
AmerisourceBergen’s published 850 specification, rendered as an interactive guide. Expand any segment to see its elements, data types, lengths and accepted codes — then validate your own document against it below.
Specification
17 of 17 segments
HEADING
ST
Transaction Set Header ST
pos 010
Optional
max —
BEG
Beginning Segment For Purchase Order BEG
pos 020
Required
max —
REF
Reference Identification REF
pos 050
Optional
max —
ITD
Terms Of Sale Deferred Terms Of Sale ITD
When terms in ITD12 does not contain discount (0% or Net only), then only ITD07 should be populated i.e. 0% 14 days or Net 14 days.
When terms in ITD12 contain discount and net terms, then ITD03, 05 & 07 should be populated i.e. 2% 10 days Net 14.
Example:
With Discount: ITD|01|3|2||10||14|||||2%10N14~
Without Discount: ITD|05|3|||||14|||||NET 14~
pos 130
Required
max —
DTM
Date Time Reference DTM
pos 150
Optional
max 10
N1 LoopN1 Loop Bill and ShipTo variant 1 of 3repeats 200required
N1
Name N1
pos 310
Required
max —
N1 LoopShip Tovariant 2 of 3
N1
Name N1
pos 310
Required
max —
N3
Address Information N3
pos 330
Optional
max 2
N4
Geographic Location N4
pos 340
Optional
max —
PER
Administrative Communications Contact PER
pos 360
Optional
max —
N1 LoopSupplier/Manufacturervariant 3 of 3required
N1
Name N1
pos 310
Required
max —
DETAIL
PO1 Looprepeats 100000required
PO1
Baseline Item Data PO1
pos 010
Required
max —
PID LoopSemi-structured (Code and Text)variant 1 of 2repeats 1000
PID
Product Item Description PID
pos 050
Required
max —
PID Loopvariant 2 of 2repeats 1000
PID
Structured (From Industry Code List)
pos 050
Required
max —
MSG
Message Text MSG
pos 289
Optional
max —
SUMMARY
CTT Looprepeats 1required
CTT
Transaction Totals CTT
pos 010
Required
max —
SE
Transaction Set Trailer SE
pos 030
Optional
max —
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