Ember Lane Pizza: ANSI X12 856 despatch advice
ANSI X12 856 despatch advice for Ember Lane Pizza. Version 004010 transaction set 856 for supplier delivery note DN-PIZ-3002 against PO-PIZ-1002, control number 856002. The shipment, order and item hierarchy uses HL segments, and the SN1 quantities are the quantities actually delivered, so line 2 reports 19 where the 850 ordered 23.
edi
application/edi-x12
- Kit
- restaurant-pizzeria
- Schema Version
- 1
- Synthetic
- true
- As Of
- 2026-09-08
- Currency
- CAD
- Tax Name
- GST
Binary edi: no in-browser preview. Download it above to open in a compatible application.
Specifications
- Kit
- restaurant-pizzeria
- Schema Version
- 1
- Synthetic
- true
- As Of
- 2026-09-08
- Currency
- CAD
- Tax Name
- GST
- Tax Rate
- 0.05
- Standard
- ANSI X12 004010
- Transaction Set
- 856
- Control Number
- 856002
- Segments
- 19
- Segment Terminator
- ~
- Line Endings
- CRLF
- Encoding
- ASCII
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Read ansi x12 856 despatch advice into a procure-to-pay import, three-way match and reconciliation workflow for Ember Lane Pizza.
- Expected result
- Version 004010 transaction set 856 for supplier delivery note DN-PIZ-3002 against PO-PIZ-1002, control number 856002. The shipment, order and item hierarchy uses HL segments, and the SN1 quantities are the quantities actually delivered, so line 2 reports 19 where the 850 ordered 23.
What is a .edi file?
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), in the ANSI X12 family, is a structured plain-text format for exchanging business documents like purchase orders (850) and invoices (810) between trading partners. It is built from segments (ISA, GS, ST, …) separated by delimiters, with tightly specified element positions. It underpins much of B2B supply-chain and retail commerce.
How to use this file
Use an example X12 EDI file to test EDI parsers and translators, segment/element extraction, and mapping from EDI to JSON or XML. The parties and values here are synthetic.
How to use this file for testing
“Ember Lane Pizza: ANSI X12 856 despatch advice” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Data import, Conversion testing. Realistic faker-generated datasets with documented schemas for testing import and ETL flows.
Documented properties for this file: ASCII · CRLF. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such, expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Document fixtures list their internal structure (pages, fields, tracked changes, embedded objects) in the spec table. Test extractors, converters, and OCR against that known structure, and compare searchable↔scanned or format-twin companions when present.
Code examples
from pydifact.segmentcollection import Interchange # EDIFACT
inter = Interchange.from_file("edi-856-despatch-advice.edi")
for seg in inter.segments:
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