860 Purchase Order Change Request - Buyer Initiated
Boeing · X12 004010
Boeing’s published 860 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
41 of 41 segments
HEADING
ST
Transaction Set Header ST
pos 010
Optional
max —
BCH
Beginning Segment For Purchase Order Change BCH
pos 020
Required
max —
PER
Administrative Communications Contact PER
Boeing Buyer Information.
pos 060
Optional
max 3
TAX
Tax Reference TAX
To indicate applicable tax information
If TAX01 exists then TAX02 and TAX03 will be blank.
If TAX01 is blank, then TAX02 and TAX03 will exist.
pos 070
Optional
max —
FOB
Fob Related Instructions FOB
pos 080
Optional
max —
ITD
Discount Not Applicable or Basic Discount Offeredvariant 1 of 2
Payment Terms.
pos 130
Optional
max 5
ITD
Mixedvariant 2 of 2
Payment Terms - When Discount Day of Month and Net Day of Month exist.
pos 130
Optional
max —
N9 LoopLetters or Notesvariant 1 of 5
N9
Reference Identification N9
Mask Purchase Order Note
or
Routing Type and Description
or
Routing Instructions
or
To start the loop for Purchase Order Notes
or
This is a disclaimer stating that all purchase order changes are not always identifiable
pos 285
Required
max —
MSG
Message Text MSG
pos 290
Optional
max 1000
N9 Loop Purchase Order Numbervariant 2 of 5
N9
Reference Identification N9
Mask Purchase Order Number.
pos 285
Required
max —
MSG
Message Text MSG
pos 290
Optional
max 1000
N9 LoopDescription of Change Codevariant 3 of 5
N9
Reference Identification N9
To identify internal codes regarding changes to the purchase order.
pos 285
Required
max —
MSG
Message Text MSG
pos 290
Optional
max 1000
N9 LoopTermvariant 4 of 5
N9
Reference Identification N9
To Define Term Expiration Date Information.
pos 285
Required
max —
MSG
Message Text MSG
pos 290
Optional
max 1000
N9 LoopSuppliervariant 5 of 5
N9
Reference Identification N9
To Identify the Supplier Contact.
pos 285
Required
max —
N1 LoopShip Tovariant 1 of 2
N1
Name N1
Ship-To Information.
pos 300
Required
max —
N1 LoopSupplier/Manufacturervariant 2 of 2
N1
Name N1
Supplier Information.
pos 300
Required
max —
DETAIL
POC Loop
POC
Line Item Change POC
pos 010
Required
max —
CTP
Pricing Information CTP
Pricing information not found in POC segment will be displayed here, specifically when:
1) pricing codes exist (see CTP02)
2) multiple prices exist for one line item
3) multiple units of measure exist for one line item
pos 040
Optional
max —
MEA
Measurements MEA
Shipping Tolerance Information.
pos 049
Optional
max 40
PID Loop
PID
Product Item Description PID
Line Item Description
or
Line Item - Additional Description
pos 050
Required
max —
SAC LoopChargevariant 1 of 2
SAC
Service Promotion Allowance Or Charge Information SAC
Special Charge Information.
pos 130
Required
max —
SAC LoopNo Allowance or Chargevariant 2 of 2
SAC
Service Promotion Allowance Or Charge Information SAC
Canceled Special Charge Information.
pos 130
Required
max —
SDQ
End Itemvariant 1 of 2
Supplier Banked Material Information - End Item. Also see the N9/MSG segments in Detail section pos. 285 and 290, for additional SBM-End Item Information.
pos 190
Optional
max 500
SDQ
Ship-Tovariant 2 of 2
Supplier Banked Material Information - Ship-To. There can be MULTIPLE occurrences of this SDQ segment for a given PO1 loop. Also see N1 loop, position 290, in Detail section for additional SBM Ship-To information.
pos 190
Optional
max 500
SCH Loop
SCH
Line Item Schedule SCH
There might be two types of SCH - Committed Schedule Information (SCH-04 = "Committed") and Required Schedule Information (SCH-04 = "Required")
Committed Schedule Information – this segment is optional on a purchase order.
Required Schedule Information - this segment will always be present.
pos 295
Required
max —
N9 LoopPart Numbervariant 1 of 4
N9
Reference Identification N9
Supplier Banked Material (SBM) - End Item Information. This also ties to SDQ segment (Detail Section, pos. 190).
pos 320
Required
max —
MSG
Message Text MSG
pos 330
Optional
max 1000
N9 LoopPurchase Order Numbervariant 2 of 4
N9
Reference Identification N9
Supplier Banked Material (SBM) - End Item Information. This also ties to SDQ segment (Detail Section, pos. 190).
pos 320
Required
max —
MSG
Message Text MSG
pos 330
Optional
max 1000
N9 LoopSales Responsibilityvariant 3 of 4
N9
Reference Identification N9
Pricing Code Information.
pos 320
Required
max —
MSG
Message Text MSG
pos 330
Optional
max 1000
N9 LoopMutually Definedvariant 4 of 4
N9
Reference Identification N9
Schedule Reference Information (when SCH segment dates are not numeric).
pos 320
Required
max —
MSG
Message Text MSG
pos 330
Optional
max 1000
N1 Loop
N1
Name N1
Supplier Banked Material (SBM) - Ship-To Information
• This ties to the second SDQ segment (Detail section, position 190)
pos 340
Required
max —
N3
Address Information N3
SBM (Ship-To) Supplier Street Address.
pos 360
Optional
max 2
N4
Geographic Location N4
SBM (Ship-To) Supplier City, State, Zip and Nation.
pos 370
Optional
max —
SLN Loop
SLN
Subline Item Detail SLN
Line Item Work Order Information.
pos 460
Required
max —
SUMMARY
CTT Loop
CTT
Transaction Totals CTT
pos 010
Required
max —
SE
Transaction Set Trailer SE
pos 030
Optional
max —
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