846 Inventory Inquiry/Advice
Subway · X12 005010
Subway’s published 846 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
11 of 11 segments
HEADING
ST
Transaction Set Header ST
pos 0100
Optional
max —
BIA
Beginning Segment For Inventory Inquiry Advice BIA
pos 0200
Required
max —
REF
Reference Information REF
One iteration of the REF segment is required for the Subway Restaurants assigned internal vendor ID
(REF01=IA)
pos 0600
Required
max —
N1 Looprequired
N1
Party Identification N1
pos 0800
Required
max —
DETAIL
LIN Looprepeats 10000required
LIN
Item Identification LIN
pos 0100
Required
max —
PID
Product Item Description PID
One iteration of the PID loop is requried for Product Description (PID02=08)
pos 0300
Required
max 2
DTM
Date Time Reference DTM
pos 1000
Optional
max 10
QTY Looprepeats 99required
QTY
Quantity Information QTY
If no quantity is currently available sent as a zero quantity (QTY02=0 where QTY01=33)
pos 3200
Required
max —
DTM
Date Time Reference DTM
pos 3550
Required
max 2
SUMMARY
CTT
Transaction Totals CTT
pos 0100
Optional
max —
SE
Transaction Set Trailer SE
pos 0200
Optional
max —
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