EDI & E-Commerce
The effective use of e-commerce is at the heart of an efficient book supply chain. BISG promotes good practice through endorsement of best practices in the areas of X12 EDI, XBITS, EDItX document formats, and FTP file naming standards.BISG Sales & Tax Reports
The EDItX XML document formats mirror and extend the functionality of existing X12, TRADACOMS and EDIFACT messages. Revised BISG Sales and Tax Reports (version 1.1) were published in December 2012.
Published in July 2012, this standardized template is intended to facilitate automated reporting of co-op eligible sales between wholesalers and publishers.
Last updated in September 2010, these best practices help to ensure the simultaneous availability of new releases to consumers from all consumer purchasing sources.
These X12 EDI standards have been tailored to meet the unique needs of the book industry. BISG currently supports standards for v3060, v4010, and v5030.
BISG contributes to the XBITS data standard through a cooperative relationship with papiNet.
The FTP File Naming Standard was developed to help book industry trading partners transmit and receive various files via FTP safely and efficiently.
Published in November 2006, this document addressed the unique e-commerce challenges faced by industry professionals as they moved to meet the January 1, 2007 ISBN-13 implementation date.