2) Standards documents will be exchanged only for the business purpose intended by the standard.
TI will not support the misuse of standards documents for business applications other than their designed and intended purpose. TI Semiconductor's mandate is to be in compliance with industry standards guidelines.

3) Freeform text or comments are not supported.
The exchange of freeform text or comments implies that those comments will be reviewed and/or used in business processing. This review would require manual intervention which is in direct opposition to the goal of EDI. Therefore, freeform text or comments will not be supported.

4) Transmission acknowledgments are required.
At TI transmission acknowledgments (i.e. CONTRL message or 997 transaction set) are standard and required for any exchange of data. Without the exchange of transmission acknowledgments, receipt of data cannot be verified. Loss of data could result in the interruption of business.

For every document inbound to TI, a transmission acknowledgment document will be sent to the trading partner. For every document outbound from TI, a transmission acknowledgment document will be expected to be received from the trading partner.

5) Negotiated pricing is required.
A purchase agreement between TI and the trading partner is required before EDI test transmissions can begin. The purchase agreement defines pricing and other terms and conditions. A purchase agreement (ie. negotiated pricing) is required for electronically transmitted orders and forecast based procurement.

6) Production quality data is required in EDI test feeds.
For TI, EDI testing includes the testing of
a) network connectivity(the communications gateways),
b) standards compliance(the EDI translation) and
c) business process integrity (the applications software).

An EDI test feed from a trading partner should contain realistic data and not data that is hand-crafted for the test. Therefore, a test feed from a trading partner should be created by the same means as the production feed will be created. As an example, pricing on a test order feed should be the same as pricing on a production order feed. This price should be the negotiated price. Invalid pricing on this test feed would prevent the full exercise of business applications processing; that is, invalid pricing would prevent a test order from creating.

7) Advance notification required for EDI format changes.
TI EDI Operations requires at least 30 days from receipt of written notification from a trading partner to effect format changes needed to support a production transaction.