AAFES (Army and Air Force Exchange Service) X12 850 Purchase Order

Code identifying the type of information in the Authorization Information

Information used for additional identification or authorization of the interchange sender or the data in the interchange; the type of information is set by the Authorization Information Qualifier (I01)

Code identifying the type of information in the Security Information

This is used for identifying the security information about the interchange sender or the data in the interchange; the type of information is set by the Security Information Qualifier (I03)

Code indicating the system/method of code structure used to designate the sender or receiver ID element being qualified

Identification code published by the sender for other parties to use as the receiver ID to route data to them; the sender always codes this value in the sender ID element

Code indicating the system/method of code structure used to designate the sender or receiver ID element being qualified

Identification code published by the receiver of the data; When sending, it is used by the sender as their sending ID, thus other parties sending to them will use this as a receiving ID to route data to them

Date of the interchange

Time of the interchange

Type is not applicable; the repetition separator is a delimiter and not a data element; this field provides the delimiter used to separate repeated occurrences of a simple data element or a composite data structure; this value must be different than the data element separator, component element separator, and the segment terminator

Code specifying the version number of the interchange control segments

A control number assigned by the interchange sender

Code indicating sender's request for an interchange acknowledgment

Code indicating whether data enclosed by this interchange envelope is test, production or information

Type is not applicable; the component element separator is a delimiter and not a data element; this field provides the delimiter used to separate component data elements within a composite data structure; this value must be different than the data element separator and the segment terminator

Code identifying a group of application related transaction sets

Code identifying party sending transmission; codes agreed to by trading partners

Code identifying party receiving transmission; codes agreed to by trading partners

Date expressed as CCYYMMDD where CC represents the first two digits of the calendar year

Time expressed in 24-hour clock time as follows: HHMM, or HHMMSS, or HHMMSSD, or HHMMSSDD, where H = hours (00-23), M = minutes (00-59), S = integer seconds (00-59) and DD = decimal seconds; decimal seconds are expressed as follows: D = tenths (0-9) and DD = hundredths (00-99)

Assigned number originated and maintained by the sender

Code identifying the issuer of the standard; this code is used in conjunction with Data Element 480

Code indicating the version, release, subrelease, and industry identifier of the EDI standard being used, including the GS and GE segments; if code in DE455 in GS segment is X, then in DE 480 positions 1-3 are the version number; positions 4-6 are the release and subrelease, level of the version; and positions 7-12 are the industry or trade association identifiers (optionally assigned by user); if code in DE455 in GS segment is T, then other formats are allowed