Transaction Workflows

Transaction Workflows represent a set of Transactions that belong together in a business process.

For each type of business, Transactions are related to each other if they share a common reference. For instance in the Retail Workflow, related Transactions all use the Purchase Order Number as a common reference.

Orderful currently supports three Transaction Workflows:

Retail Workflow (EDIFACT & X12)
Transportation Workflow (X12 only)
Warehouse Workflow (X12 only)

Retail Workflow

X12

In the X12 Retail Workflow the following X12 Transaction types are grouped together as long as they reference the same Purchase Order Number:

850 Purchase Order
855 Purchase Order Acknowledgment
856 Shipment Notice Manifest
860 Purchase Order Change Request Buyer Initiated
865 Purchase Order Change Acknowledgement
810 Invoice

Each of these Transaction types store the shared Purchase Order Number in a different path.

EDIFACT

In the EDIFACT Retail Workflow the following EDIFACT Transaction types are grouped together as long as they reference the same Purchase Order Number:

ORDERS Purchase Order
INVOIC Invoice
DESADV Despatch Advice

Transportation Workflow

In the Transportation (TMS) Workflow the following Transaction types are grouped together as long as they reference the same Shipment Identification Number:

204 Motor Carrier Load Tender
990 Response to a Load Tender
214 Transportation Carrier Shipment Status Message
210 Motor Carrier Freight Details and Invoice

Each of these Transaction types store the shared Shipment Identification Number in a different path.

Warehouse Workflow

In the Warehouse (3PL) Workflow the following Transaction types are grouped together as long as they reference the same Depositor Order Number:

940 Warehouse Shipping Order
943 Warehouse Stock Transfer Shipment Advice
944 Warehouse Stock Transfer Receipt Advice
945 Warehouse Shipping Advice

Each of these Transaction types store the shared Depositor Order Number in a different path.

Find related Transactions by Workflow

Orderful uses Workflows to group Transactions that share a common reference. You can find Transaction that are related to each other by looking at any Transactions related Workflow:

Go to your Transactions page
Click on a Transaction.
Click on the Workflows tab.
Under the "Related Transactions" section, you will see Transactions that are a part of this Transaction's Workflow. Clicking on one of the related Transaction will open it in the same tab.

Workflow validation

After Transactions are grouped into Workflows, some of them have further validation performed on them.

214 & 204 SCAC Code

Orderful performs validation on the SCAC code in both the 204 and any subsequent 214 documents found within a Workflow.

214 Transportation Carrier Shipment Status

JSON:transactionSets.*.beginningSegmentForTransportationCarrierShipmentStatusMessage.*.standardCarrierAlphaCode
X12: ST > B10 > B1003

JSON: transactionSets.*.interlineInformation.*.standardCarrierAlphaCode
X12: ST > MS3 > MS301

204 Motor Carrier Load Tender

JSON:transactionSets.*.beginningSegmentForShipmentInformationTransaction.*.standardCarrierAlphaCode
X12: ST > B2 > B202

210 & 204 SCAC Code

Orderful performs validation on the SCAC code in both the 204 and any subsequent 210 documents found within a Workflow.

210 Motor Carrier Freight Details and Invoice

JSON:transactionSets.*.beginningSegmentForTransportationCarrierShipmentStatusMessage.*.standardCarrierAlphaCode
X12: ST > B3 > B311

JSON: transactionSets.*.routeInformation.*.standardCarrierAlphaCode
X12: ST > R3 > R301

204 Motor Carrier Load Tender

JSON:transactionSets._.beginningSegmentForCarriersInvoice._.standardCarrierAlphaCode
X12: ST > B2 > B202