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Dispatch advice
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Introduction
Dispatch advice is a document that is exchanged in the course of procurement and distribution processes.
The purpose of the dispatch advice is to provide the final consignee of the goods with detailed information relating to the actual contents of a dispatch sent by a consignor.
The message is based upon the definition of a dispatch as a specified amount of goods sent by a specified consignor to a specified consignee on a specific occasion.
The document type is sometimes called ASN, which is an acronym for Advanced Shipment Notification.
Also note the difference in spelling due to US English/GB English language; US = despatch, GB = dispatch.
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Recommended formats
Below is a list of application response formats recommended by us.
Note
All formats recommended by us are actively maintained, based on open standards, offer good supporting documentation and validation artefacts.
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Peppol BIS Despatch Advice 3.1
Peppol Business Interoperability Specifications (BIS) are technical specifications that can be implemented in existing eProcurement solutions and eBusiness exchange services to make them interoperable between disparate systems.
Peppol BIS defines a set of information elements (business terms) and business rules to ensure that requirements are fulfilled and to clarify any option that would otherwise be left open to implementers to decide on.
They are developed and maintained by OpenPeppol and are one of the most commonly used open standards today.
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Pagero UN/EDIFACT DESADV D96A
UN/EDIFACT is an international standard for electronic data interchange (EDI) developed for the United Nations and approved and published by UNECE, the UN Economic Commission for Europe.
The EDIFACT standard provides a set of syntax rules to structure, an interactive exchange protocol and provides a set of standard messages which allow multi-country and multi-industry exchange of electronic business documents. EDIFACT is widely used across Europe, mainly due to the fact that many companies adopted it very early on.
More general information can be found here UNECE: Introducing UN/EDIFACT.
We develop and maintain our own Message Implementation Guidelines (MIG) for UN/EDIFACT D96A.
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Supported formats
Below is a list of despatch advice formats supported - but not necessarily recommended - by us.
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cXML Despatch Advice
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EHF Despatch Advice 3.0
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ESAP 6 Despatch Advice
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IFS XML Despatch Advice
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Peppol BIS 30A 2.0
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xCBL Despatch Advice 3.5
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Customer specific formats
We can build support for any proprietary/closed source format you and your ERP system may require.
For more information, please see the proprietary or closed source formats section.