855 Purchase Order Acknowledgment
Rural King · X12 005010
Rural King’s published 855 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 0100
Optional
max —
BAK
Beginning Segment For Purchase Order Acknowledgment BAK
pos 0200
Required
max —
DTM
Do Not Deliver Aftervariant 1 of 3
Mandatory on Reverse Purchase Orders
pos 1500
Optional
max —
DTM
Do Not Deliver Beforevariant 2 of 3
Mandatory on Reverse Purchase Orders
pos 1500
Optional
max —
DTM
Requested Pickupvariant 3 of 3
pos 1500
Optional
max —
N1 LoopN1 Loop Mark for Partyvariant 1 of 3
N1
Party Identification N1
Required for pass through (cross dock) purchase orders where the Ship-To is not the final location for the order to be shipped. Please send the code from the N1 Z7 segment of the Purchase Order. Only used when not using SDQ segments.
pos 3000
Required
max —
N1 LoopN1 Loop Ship Fromvariant 2 of 3required
N1
Party Identification N1
Contains the Rural King assigned supplier site ID.
pos 3000
Required
max —
REF
Reference Information REF
pos 3400
Optional
max 5
N1 LoopN1 Loop Ship Tovariant 3 of 3required
N1
Party Identification N1
For cross dock orders this segment will contain the DC/warehouse location code. For direct to store or direct to warehouse orders, this segment will contain the store number or DC location code.
For allocation or split orders, the N1 “ST” segment at the header level will not be sent. The store and DC/warehouse location codes will instead be sent in the detail SDQ destination quantity segments
pos 3000
Required
max —
N3
Party Location N3
pos 3200
Optional
max 2
N4
Geographic Location N4
pos 3300
Optional
max —
DETAIL
PO1 Looprequired
PO1
Baseline Item Data PO1
pos 0100
Required
max —
PID Looprepeats 1000
PID
Product Item Description PID
pos 0500
Required
max —
SDQ
Destination Quantity SDQ
pos 1900
Optional
max 500
ACK Looprepeats 104
ACK
Line Item Acknowledgment ACK
pos 2700
Required
max —
SUMMARY
CTT Looprepeats 1required
CTT
Transaction Totals CTT
CTT establishes the total count on items in the specified invoice. If either CTT03 or CTT04 are present, then the others are required
pos 0100
Required
max —
SE
Transaction Set Trailer SE
pos 0300
Optional
max —
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