The proposed Advance Ship Notice schema has a four-tier structure: shipment, order, pack, and item. Each tier contains a number of elements appropriate to that tier. For example, the shipment level contains shipment method and ship-to party identification; the order level contains the order number and physical details about the order (weight, volume, etc.); the pack level contains pack serial number, units, and dimensions; the item level contains product identification and item reference numbers. (These examples are only a small number of all the elements supported.) The number of mandatory elements has intentionally been kept small to make using the schema easy for all parties irrespective of the back-end system generating or receiving the ship notice. The only mandatory levels are shipment and order, and of those, the shipment level has only three mandatory elements (ship date, ship-to information, and transaction date), while the order level has only one mandatory element (order number).

Documents as approved September 19, 2003 by the FIDX Working Group
   •  Schema
   •  Native Document

This schema has been submitted by the 856 ASN committee as an XML standard for the Home Furnishings industry. It is approved by FIDX for use and awaits review and final approval by the UCC.

July 24, 2001. Charlotte, NC

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