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875

Grocery Products Purchase Order

UCS grocery
Retailer/Wholesaler → Supplier/Broker

The grocery-industry PO — same job as the 850, different dialect (G-segments, UCS heritage).

The 875 is the grocery-industry purchase order: a retailer or wholesaler ordering finished goods from a broker or supplier. It fills the same role as the 850 but comes from a different lineage — the old Uniform Communication Standard (UCS) that grocery trading partners used before folding into X12 — so it carries its own segment set (G50, G68, G72, G76) instead of the 850's (BEG, PO1, CTT). A distributor who trades with both big-box (850) and grocery-wholesale (875) partners is really running two different order formats side by side.

Grocery-industry (UCS) note

Grocery-industry (UCS) variant, functional group OG — not the mainstream ANSI retail 850/855/856/810 family.

⚠ Where it bites

875 uses G-segments (G50, G68, G72, G76) — don't try to map them field-for-field onto the 850's BEG/PO1/CTT. Same purpose, different standard.

Key segments

ISA GS ST G50 N9 G62 NTE G66 N1 N3 N4 G72 G73 G68 G69 G70 G76 SE GE IEA

Related documents

880 Grocery Products Invoice

The grocery-industry invoice — the 875's billing counterpart, standalone detail billing only.

850 Purchase Order

The order itself — what the retailer wants, how much, at what price, ship where.

855 Purchase Order Acknowledgment

Your 'got it' — confirm, change, or reject each line of the PO.

Got a real 875? See if it'd pass.

Inspect it segment-by-segment, or score it against a retailer's rules — free.

Inspect an X12 Readiness Check