Transportation Data Coordinating Committee (TDCC)

TDCC's standards are the direct ancestor of the EDI messages that retailers, 3PLs and carriers still exchange every day. Edward Guilbert, who had seen paper manifests slow cargo during the 1948 Berlin Airlift, helped lead the effort to agree on common electronic formats for bills of lading, freight bills and similar documents. TDCC's 1975 release introduced transaction sets, and ANSI later chartered the X12 committee, which built on that work. When a retailer sends an 850 purchase order or a 3PL returns an 856 advance ship notice, it is using a structure that TDCC started.

• Electronic Data InterchangeEDIStandard documents traded between partners
• Advance Shipping NoticeASNNotice sent before a shipment arrives
• Purchase OrderPOA buyer's order document to a supplier

• Berlin Airlift1948–1949 · Planes supply West Berlin during the Soviet blockade

1. X12 Awards (X12) x12.org
2. EDI definition and history (University of Pittsburgh) sis.pitt.edu