ACH (Automated Clearing House):
A central distribution and settlement point for electronic items exchanged between an originating bank and a receiving bank.

Acknowledgement:
A special transaction set (ANSI/X12 997) transmitted by a receiver as an affirmative response to the sender

 

AIAG (Automotive Industry Action Group):
An industry organization formed to improve the competitiveness of the American automotive industry. It was an early developer of EDI standards.

 

Air IMPS:
Proprietary messages promulgated by the International Air Transport Association for the movement of passengers.

 

American National Standards Institute:
A non-profit organization chartered to develop and maintain American national standards. Through its national standards committees, ANSI sets and monitors the standards for all technology for US Industry. See ANSI.

ANSI:
the acronym for the American National Standards Institute

ANSI ASC X12 (American National Standards Institute Accredited Standards Committee X12):
A non-profit organization chartered to develop and maintain voluntary American national standards. It is the U.S. secretariat to the International Standards Organization. The X12 committee develops and maintains EDI standards. There are approximately 300 member organizations representing over 30 industries.

 

ASN (Advance Shipment Notice):
An X12 transaction set number 856 that is used to notify the receiver that product is in transit.

Arrival Notice:
Advice, generally given by a carrier or its agent, to interested parties that their goods are available for pick-up, customs clearance or further transport.

ASCII:
Acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard seven bit transfer character set used for most inter-computer communication.

Assignment:
the transfer of rights from one party to another who is not an original party to the contract.

 

Async:
 

Abbreviation for Asynchronous.

Asynchronous:
A form of data transmission in which individual characters are sent one at a time, delineated by a start bit and a stop bit. Traditionally used for low speed data transmission.

Audit Trail:
A permanent record of messages transmitted and received.

Autodial (Automatic Dialing):
Capability of a terminal, modem, computer or similar device to place a call over the switched telephone network and establish a connection without operator intervention; also known as autocall.