EDI Business Document Guide

From Orders and Invoices to ASN and Functional Acknowledgements, B2B companies exchange a huge number of business documents every day to keep operations running smoothly across suppliers, customers, warehouses, logistics providers, and finance teams.

But with different industries, systems, and EDI standards often using different names for the same documents, it can quickly become difficult to navigate the terminology and understand each document’s purpose.

This guide gives you a practical overview of the most used business documents in B2B communication, including well known documents like Orders, Invoices, and Advanced Shipping Notices (ASN), as well as lesser known but equally important documents such as Functional Acknowledgements and Transport Orders.

Whether you work in supply chain, logistics, finance, customer operations, procurement, or IT, this guide will help you better understand how these documents support critical business processes across the order to cash and procure to pay lifecycle.