Benefits of using an 832 price/sales catalog
Implementing the 832 price/sales catalog offers benefits to both the retailer or distributor (receiver of the EDI 832 document) and the supplier (sender of the EDI 832 document).
Retailer and distributor benefits
Supplier benefits
The key data elements in the price catalog/sales catalog PRICAT document include:
Additional data that may also be included in the EDI 832 document (X12 832 and EDIFACT PRICAT) are:
Common issues regarding EDI 832
Forced data hierarchy:
The EDI 832 (also known as X12 832 and EDIFACT PRICAT) requires a strict data hierarchy between selection code, product code and catalog that may not match how a supplier categorizes its products. This causes additional work and requires suppliers to artificially augment their data in order to match the prescribed hierarchy.
Limited attributes:
The EDI 832 only accommodates a limited set of data attributes. Some retailers require additional attributes such as length, width or height of an item, image data and extended pricing information. For those attributes, suppliers will have to supplement the data in the EDI 832 document with a spreadsheet.
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