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Cucumber & Co. Established 1826 · Purveyors of Cucurbits and Brining Stock
Order
B2B integration

X12 and EDIFACT, since 1992.

We exchange purchase orders, ship notices, invoices, and remittance with foodservice distributors and retail buyers using the standard transaction sets. Onboarding is two weeks for X12 partners and three for EDIFACT. The connection is paid for by us, not by you.

Connectivity

Three ways in.

  • SFTP. The default. We provision a partner-specific SFTP user with key-based authentication. Polling cadence is configurable from 5 minutes to hourly.
  • AS2. AS2 over HTTPS for partners with internal AS2 infrastructure. MDN receipts inside 60 seconds. Encryption: 3DES or AES-256, signing: SHA-256.
  • VAN. We have direct mailbox connections with SPS Commerce, OpenText (GXS), IBM Sterling, and TrueCommerce. New VAN can be added in two weeks.

Standards

  • ANSI X12 versions 4010 and 5010
  • EDIFACT D.96A and D.01B
  • ISA / GS qualifier on request
  • 997 functional ack on all inbound
  • Test partner accounts available
Supported transactions

Standard transaction sets

Code Name Direction Note
850 Purchase Order Inbound Buyer to seller. We acknowledge inside 30 minutes during business hours, 4 hours otherwise.
855 PO Acknowledgment Outbound Returned with line-level accept / reject / change. Allocation conflicts surface here.
860 PO Change Inbound Honored up to 24 hours before scheduled pick.
865 PO Change Acknowledgment Outbound Confirms changes, or returns reasons for rejection.
856 Advance Ship Notice Outbound Sent at truck dispatch. Includes pallet, case, lot, and harvest-date detail.
810 Invoice Outbound Sent at PO close. Net 30 from invoice date.
820 Payment Remittance Inbound Standard ACH or wire remittance with PO and invoice references.
846 Inventory Inquiry / Advice Outbound Daily inventory snapshot, segmented by warehouse and SKU.
832 Price/Sales Catalog Outbound Published quarterly and on allocation calendar updates.
997 Functional Acknowledgment Both Standard ANSI X12 acknowledgment for all transactions.
Onboarding

Two weeks, end to end.

  1. 01

    Kickoff (day 1)

    Trade partner profile exchange. ISA / GS qualifier confirmation. Test connection on the agreed channel.

  2. 02

    Mapping (days 2 to 5)

    We map your test 850 to our internal order schema. We send a sample 855 and 856 against your mapping spec.

  3. 03

    UAT (days 6 to 10)

    Three test orders end to end, including one short-ship and one allocation conflict to confirm the change-set flow works.

  4. 04

    Go-live (days 11 to 14)

    First production order. We monitor the inbound channel for the first two weeks and have a real engineer on the line during business hours.

Live partners

Currently exchanging EDI with

Plus seven retail grocery accounts under non-disclosure. If your buyer team needs a reference call with one of the live partners, we can arrange it after a signed mutual NDA.

Want a test connection?

Send us your trading partner profile through the contact page and we'll have a sandbox ISA / GS pair back to you the same day.

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