70-FEDL. IMPLEMENTATION CONVENTIONS FOR ASC X12 3060 TRANSACTION: 846I INVENTORY INQUIRY/ADVICE (ASSET STATUS INQUIRY/REPORT; ET AL.) The Joint Federal/DoD Logistics Functional Working group is developing standard implementation conventions to be used by the Federal Government in transmitting electronic data using ANSI X12 Version 3060. Federal Implementation Conventions for ASC X12 transaction 846I Inventory/Advice (Asset Status Inquiry/Report), 846L Inventory Inquiry/Advice (Logistics asset Support), 888I Item Maintenance (Storage Item Correction), 947I Warehouse Inventory Adjustment Advice (Inventory Adjustment), and 867I Product Transfer and Resale Report (Issue) are available for public comment. Documents are available in electronic format from the World Wide Web (WWW) at http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/fededi/cbd.html and from anonymous FTP at snad.ncsl.nist.gov, directory pub/fededi/LFWG. The FTP login is anonymous and your E-Mail address should be entered as the password. Electronic comments are preferred and should be addressed to LOGFWG@EDI.OTI.DISA.MIL and jp.favreau@nist.gov. The public comment period closes March 2, 1998 (or 30 days from the date of publishing) Contact Jean-Philippe Favreau EDI Standards Management Program, Attn: Joint Federal/DoD Logistics Functional Working group Information Technology Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST-North, Room 458, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, Tel: (301) 975-3634.

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