70 -- FEDL. IMPLEMENTATION CONVENTIONS FOR ASC X12 4010 TRANSACTIONS; 846R -- INVENTORY INQUIRY/ADVICE (LOCATION RECONCILIATION) The Joint Federal/DoD Logistics Functional Working Group is developing standard implementation conventions to be used by the Federal Government in transmitting electronic data using ANSI X12 Version 4010. Federal Imlementation Convention for ASC X12 transactions 846R -- Inventory Inquiry/Advice (Location Reconciliation) is available for public comment. Documents available in electronic format from the World Wide Web (WWW) at http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/fededi/cbd.html and from anonymous FTP at snad.ncsl.nist.gov, directory pub/fededi/LFWG. The FTP login is anonymous and your E-Mail address should be entered as the password. Electronic comments are preferred and should be addressed to logfwg@edi.oti.disa.mil and jp.favreau@nist.gov. The public comment period closes August 15, 1998 (or 30 days from the date of publishing) Contact Jean-Philippe Favreau EDI Standards Management Program, Attn: Joint Federal/DoD Logistics Functional Working Group Information Technology Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST-North, Room 458, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, Tel: (301) 975-3634. Posted 07/15/98 (W-SN223770).

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