A LIVING GLOSSARY OF TERMS RELATED TO EDI
Often as confusing as electronic data interchange (EDI) are the terms that go with it. This is a glossary of terms assisting and promoting the education of EDI. We continuously add and update this resource making it a “living” document.

- 3PL (Third-Party Logistics)
- Advance Ship Notice (ASN)
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
- Application Acknowledgment
- Application Advice
- ASC X12
- Bar Code
- Bill of Lading
- BOLD Transport
- Business to Business (B2B) Integration
- Clearinghouse
- Cloud computing
- Cloud EDI
- Compliance Checking
- Confirmation
- Consumer Packaged Goods
- Continuous Replenishment Program
- Control Envelope
- Control Number
- Control Segment
- Control Structure
- CPFR
- Data Element
- Data Element, Composite
- Data Segment
- Data Segment Directory
- Data Synchronization
- Decryption
- DELFOR
- Delimiters
- Delivery Trailer Manifest
- DELJIT
- DES
- DESADV
- Digital Certificate
- Digital Signature
- Download
- DSD
- EDI
- EDI over the Internet
- EDI Translation
- EDI Translator
- EDIFACT
- EFT (Electronic funds transfer)
- Electronic Commerce
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- Element
- Element Delimiter
- Encryption
- Enterprise Application Integration
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Envelope
- Evaluated Receipts Settlement
- Event-Driven EDI
- eXtensible Markup Language
- File Structure
- Flat File
- FTP
- Functional Acknowledgment
- Gateway
- GRN
- Hardware
- Header
- HIPAA
- HL7
- HTTP
- HTTPS
- Hub
- IETF
- Implementation Guide
- Interchange Envelope
- Interconnect
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- Invoice
- Kilo Character Counting
- Manifest
- Mapping
- Modem
- NAK
- Network
- Network Service Provider
- Notification of Shipment
- OASIS
- Object
- Open Network
- Payment Terms
- Platform
- Point-to-Point
- Proprietary Ordering System
- Protocol
- Protocol Conversion
- Purchase Order
- Purchase Order Acknowledgment
- Qualifier
- Receiver
- Repository
- Secure FTP
- Self-billing
- Seller
- Sender
- Sequence Table
- SFTP
- Shipment Notification
- Simple data elements
- SMTP
- Software
- Spoke
- Standards
- Standards Body
- Standards, Public
- Store and Forward
- Store and Retrieve
- Supply Chain
- Syntax
- TDI
- Third-party
- Trading Partner Pricing (TPP)
- Trailer
- Transaction Set
- Transaction set ID
- Transaction Set Standards
- Translation
- Translator
- Transmission Acknowledgment
- UCC
- UN/CEFACT
- User
- User Group
- Validation
- Value-Added Network
- VAN
- Version/Release
- Web Services
- Web Services Interoperability
- Web-EDI
- WINS
- XML