EANCOM PART II |  | 1997-07-01
PARTIN | - Party Information Message | VERSION 006

## 1. Introduction

### Status

MESSAGE TYPE | : PARTIN
REFERENCE DIRECTORY | : D.96A
EANCOM SUBSET VERSION | : 006

### Definition

A message to enable the transmission of basic information regarding locations and the related operational, administrative, commercial and financial data.

### Principles

The identification of the trading partners is an essential issue for the Electronic Data Interchange. It is even more important to identify the locations precisely and unambiguously with EDI than with traditional paper documents.

The Party Information message serves to maintain the trading partner's master data files.

The Party Information message can also be used by the trading partners to feed a central catalogue of addresses, making the information available to all interested parties.

By using location numbers and describing them in the Party Information Message, the trading partners can use these numbers to refer to the appropriate locations in later exchanges of trading documents.

The Party Information Message is used to specify information related to physical locations and to functional locations. A functional location is usually a specific department within a company.

It is recommended that one separate message be provided per message function (DE 1225 in BGM segment).

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