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Glossary of Terms
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CONDITION DOCUMENTS AND MONETARY DOCUMENTS v. 2.0.2
Relationship Dependent Data For Price Synchronisation
Term Definition
Allowances
Credit reflected on an invoice.  This can occur either at the item or the invoice level. There are many types of allowances. Some are contractually based, e.g. backhaul, others are not formalized contracts. Some allowances are offered to the industry such as payment terms while others such as promotional allowances are trading partner specific.


Alternate Buyer Trading Partner Profile Reference

A reference identification assigned by the buyer to refer to the TPP in the buyer’s internal information system.


Alternate Seller Trading Partner Profile Reference

A reference identification assigned by the seller to refer to the TPP in the seller’s internal information system.


Application Sequence

The order (first, second, third etc.) in which a component of a total price calculation is processed. Necessary to ensure that the same end result is reached in final price calculations for the seller and buyer.


Bracket Price

A term used to denote the price most commonly associated with the purchase of a specific number of trade items, or some other logistical measure (weight, cube). These are often offered in a series (e.g. 100 to 299 case lots, 300 to 599, full truckload; each offering a different discount)


Bracket (Tier) Range Minimum

Defines the lower limit required to qualify for the price amount.


Bracket (Tier) Range Maximum

Defines the upper limit required to qualify for the price amount.


Bracket
Range
Qualifier

The bracket range qualifier describes the values represented by the bracket range minimum and/or the bracket range maximum with the unit of measure or monetary value & ISO currency code or other descriptor, such as case, pallet, pound, points, each, dimensions, or logistic units.


Channel Management

The act of identifying or negotiating the appropriate

Trade Channel of the purchaser in a trading partnership.

Charge               
Debit reflected on an invoice.  This can occur either at the item or at the invoice level. There are many types of charges. Some are contractually based, others are not formalized contracts.

Component Pricing

Term used to describe when trading partners communicate price related information in a number of parts, (eg. charge, allowances, taxes added, etc.)


Condition Document

Data structures that enable the calculation of an end price from a given starting price. Condition Documents contain information on how to apply a specific monetary document value to obtain an end price.


Condition Identifier

An identifier assigned to identify a condition.


Condition Name

A free form text field used to provide a descriptive name for a condition.


Condition Type

Condition types are general classifications for a given Condition.  The treatment of the monetary values within a price calculation (plus or minus) are determined by the condition type. Condition Types are an enumerated list and include the following values:
  • Tax
  • List Price
  • Allowance
  • Charge
  • Bracket/Tier Price
  • Promotion
  • Transaction Price
  • Deposit

Data Recipient

(Within GDSN) The
GLN of the party which is authorized to view, use, download a set of Master Data provided by a Data Source.


Data Source

(Within GDSN) The Global Location Number (GLN) of the source of the TPP. The GLN is a unique location number used in the Global Data Synchronisation process to identify data owners/info providers, etc. such as distributors, brokers, and manufacturers.


Deductions
Monies claimed and taken by a customer from the invoice.  It may or may not be authorized.

Deposit

A component of price normally associated to a fee charged by the seller to the buyer that is refundable. Retailer or consumer may choose to have this amount returned by seller by complying with stated requirements.  Examples: Bottle deposit, pallet return, tool rental.


Effective End Date

1.  The day of the termination or expiration of a Condition Document, Monetary Document or Trading Partner Profile.      2.  A date\time used to indicate when the Price Condition is no longer available for use.

3.  The date on which the TPP ends i.e. the date from which the terms of the TPP will cease.


Effective End Date Context.

An enumerated list qualifying the end effective date.

Valid values for End Effective Date Context are as follows:
Last Arrival Date
Last Order Date
Last Ship Date.


Effective Start Date

The day that a Condition Document, Monetary Document or Trading Partner Profile is enacted.

 

Effective Start Date Context.
An enumerated list qualifying the start effective date.
 
Start Effective Date Context includes the following values:
First Order Date
First Ship Date
First Arrival Date
Requested Delivery Date
Ad Date


Invoice
A legal document (electronic or hard copy) identifying a payment due in return for goods and/or services rendered.

Invoice Summary Level
Method of depiction where the price component is calculated against the total invoice amount. (Also see Method of Depiction)


Lead Time

Number of calendar days from a stated effective date that a condition becomes valid for application.


Line Item Level

Method of depiction that refers to a single trade item on an invoice. (Also see Method of Depiction)

List Price
External price associated with a product absent of all allowances or charges. This is normally the printed price contained on suppliers price list or catalogue. (May or may not be customer specific).


Method of Depiction

How a condition will be shown on an invoice. There are two depiction options – Line item level (assumption is each line represents information about x quantity of a single GTIN listed on invoice) and Invoice summary level (bottom of invoice, and not necessarily limited in association to a single trade item/GTIN on the invoice, could be associated with one, many or all trade items on invoice)


Monetary Document

Data structures that contain a value, rate or percent relating to a specific condition.  Monetary Documents may or may not be GTIN/GLN specific (for example backhaul allowance/charge).


Monetary Value Cap

A value associated with the monetary value qualifier

to limit the calculation of rate to a specified maximum – applicable only to rate. Integer.  This would be used where a trading partner sets a maximum value for an offer.


Monetary Value Qualifier

Monetary value qualifier determines the basis on

which a specific monetary type is acted upon. Values could include gross weight, start price, subtotal, net weight, order quantity, or distance. For instance $100.00 per 1000# or $1.00 per mile.


Monetary Value Type

Determines how the monetary document values are applied on a price list. A Monetary Value Type can have any of the following values: rate, value or percentage. 


Neutral Data
Price related data universal to more than one trading partner.
On Invoice Allowance
An allowance that is reflected on the invoice.  There are regional differences in how this term is used. In North America for example the intent defined is referred to as "Off the Invoice".  Given that most of world utilizes the term as currently defined, it is recommended that all allowances reflected on the invoice be classified as "On Invoice Allowances"


Pass Through

When information (data) from the source or recipient is handed off to a Data Pool but the Data Pool does not open, view or validate the information.  The Data Pool only acts as a conduit to the data’s next location.


Performance Requirement  Description

A description of a specific performance requirement. Performance requirements are types of conditions to be met to receive a given monetary value.


Performance Requirement Options

An enumerated list containing standardized types of performance requirements. Performance requirements are types of conditions to be met to receive a given monetary value.


Points

A numerical value associated to a trade item by a seller for the purpose of logistical breakpoints for pricing or for transportation used by seller and buyer as a measure to determine bracket pricing and to calculate when mixed trade items constitute a full truckload.


Price Bracket

Defines the boundaries and qualifications for product prices.


Price List

A list of prices based on the Trading Partner Profile, specific price conditions and corresponding monetary values.


Price Notification Lead Time

Number of calendar days from a given date that a price becomes valid for application. May be repeated for each condition contained in the Trading Partner Profile.


Promotion

Allowance provided by the supplier to encourage increased product exposure/sales.  This type of allowance is specific to a product or groups of products.


Publication Date

Date of communication of information to the buyer. May or may not equal effective date.


Rate

A monetary amount associated with a qualifier other than GTIN referenced on the monetary document. (e.g. $4.00 discount per kilo of order)


Reference Document Identifier

Identifier that provides a link to further detail on the price condition, for example an associated contract between trading partners.


Reference Document Description

A  free form text field used to describe a contract or other document which contains more information about agreements made regarding a condition.


Relationship Specific
Trading terms and/or conditions that are specific to a customer/GLN /GTIN or group.

Rounding Factor

The number of positions to the right of the decimal that trading partners agree to define as the precision of the numerical value communicated between the partners.


Target Market

A geographical region based upon geographical boundaries sanctioned by the United Nations. The ISO 3166_1 List used to populate this attribute.


Trade Channel

A grouping of entities by common business model concentration – (e.g. drug, food service, grocery, hard lines, home goods, industrial, institutional, mass, military, unspecified and vend
). The default is  "unspecified."


Trading Partner Profile

A data structure that enables the representation of an agreement between trading partners’ for the inclusion, depiction and application sequence for price components on an invoice.


Trading Partner Profile Name

A cognitive description of the TPP (free text ) assigned by seller.


Transaction Price

Is the line item/GTIN price shown on the invoice document after appropriate allowances and charges have been applied.


Value

A monetary amount associated directly with a GTIN (e.g. Cost of a case of trade item is communicated as $4.00 per case)
Date of Publication: March 2007

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Date of Publication: March 2007
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