EDI 894/895 DSD Delivery/Return Explorer

What the 894 and 895 Are

The UCS 894 Delivery/Return Base Record reports the goods a vendor delivered to a store, or the goods returned from it. The 895 Delivery/Return Acknowledgment closes the loop, confirming or adjusting what the 894 reported. These are the backbone of direct-store-delivery (DSD): bread, beverages, snacks, and dairy vendors who deliver straight to the store and settle at the door. The G82 header carries the credit/debit direction, store, and document number; G83 segments carry the line items; G84 carries the totals.

Reading One by Hand Is Slow

A raw 894 is a wall of asterisk-delimited segments. This explorer turns it into a delivery you can read: direction, parties, a line-item table with UPC, quantity, and cost, and the document totals, alongside a raw segment view that labels every segment exactly as transmitted. Because element positions vary by trading partner and version, the structured view is best-effort and the raw view is always exact, so you can cross-check anything that matters before you trust it.

From Delivery Record to Posted Data

Reading a delivery is the start; matching it to the purchase order, validating it against the item file, and posting it to accounts payable without rekeying is the work I build. See integration services or get in touch. For DSD captured at the dock, see the DEX/UCS File Explorer; for other X12 documents, the EDI File Parser and X12 Segment Reference. New to these documents? Read Reading DSD Deliveries: DEX, EDI 894, and 895. Have questions? Ask James.