Technical Specifications

EDI provides industry-recognized electronic transmission standards for an extremely wide variety of business documents. These standards were reviewed by CVS and mapping requirements were developed for each electronic document to be exchanged.

All Documents sent by CVS to Supplier Trading Partners require FA (997) in return.

Please note that the following Terminators and Separators are required by CVS:

Subelement Separator..ISA16: ¬ or EBCDIC Hex 5F
Element Separator.................:  * or  EBCDIC Hex 5C
Segment Terminator..............:  ~ or  EBCDIC Hex A1

We have a releationship with Sterling Commerce.
*The VAN and associated ID is below.

VAN: Sterling Commerce

Our Sterling Commerce ID is: ZZ/CVS

The links below will provide you with the guidelines determined by CVS to be included in the inbound and outbound transactions. The required documents are: 850, 810, 812, 824, 860 & 864.

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