Trading Partner: Associated Food Stores

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If you are looking to implement Associated Food Stores as a new Trading Partner within your Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) network, this article will provide you with an understanding of the requirements, preliminary and next steps, as well as commonly used transaction types.

Associated Food Stores utilizes the following EDI ID for identification purposes. This EDI ID is made up of a Qualifier and an ID which will be sent within their Interchange Control Header, ISA segment, on your inbound transactions. This allows Transaction Manager to be able to identify the Sender and Receiver of any sent/received EDI transaction.

The table, below, lists the most common EDI ID used by Associated Food Stores.

Associated Food Stores partners with a third-party testing portal, EDICT Systems, to host the EDI testing. Your organization will need to gain access to the testing portal by contacting EDICT Systems directly.

Associated Food Stores requires you to complete compliance testing before Go-Live. Refer to the Next Steps section in this article for detailed instructions and expectations. If you prefer, TrueCommerce can conduct and complete compliance testing on your behalf, in which case you will need to provide the following details:

The table, below, lists the most commonly used EDI transactions with Associated Food Stores:

Once the purchase of the Associated Food Stores plug-in is complete, your Implementation Specialist will reach out to schedule time to complete and/or coordinate a plan for compliance testing and/or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system integration testing.

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rev: 8/14/2026

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