Trading Partners North America

Our implementation guidelines? Easy as pie.

We understand how important it is to have an implementation process that’s simple, secure and easy to manage. Within North America, we use the ANSI X12 standard for EDI. As defined by GS1, we use UCS (grocer), VICS (retail) and I/C (industrial/commercial).

Click on each area below to access resources and learn more about the areas of General Mills Trading:

Customer
Export
Finance / Treasury
Suppliers
Transportation
Warehouse
Questions? Technical Support

 

Customer

Features designed to make business processes and transactions simple and accurate.

Transaction	Standard / Version	Description
810	X12	Invoice
820	UCS/X12	EFT Inbound
820	UCS/X12	EFT Outbound
850	X12	Purchase Order
856	UCS/X12	Advance Ship Notice
875	UCS	Purchase Order
880	UCS	Invoice
997	X12/4010	Functional Acknowledgement

Support documents:

EDI Implementation Guide
EDI 997 Functional Acknowledgement

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Export

Explore tools that support booking requests, confirmation, status, transactions and more. 

Transaction	Standard/Version	Description
300	X12/4010	International Booking Request
301	X12/4010	International Confirmation
315	X12/4010	International Status
810	X12/4010	Invoice - Outbound
810	X12/4010	Invoice - Inbound (from freight forwarder)

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Finance/Treasury

Supports EFT payments for vendors, suppliers and customers with specific maps for each of our banking partners.

General Mills offers EFT payments for vendors, suppliers, and customers through the banking system. 

We have several specific maps for each of the banking partners we work with. They are all Transaction 820: Payment Order / Remittance Advice. 

Due to the confidential nature of these transactions, the specifications are not shared here.

Contact Team General Mills EDI 

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Suppliers

Find tools for electronic communication on purchase orders, changes, invoicing, email alerts, and more.

General Mills Inc wants to communicate electronically with all suppliers for purchase orders, purchase order changes, invoicing and ASN by either using standard EDI directly or by going through the General Mills Taulia Supplier Portal.

If you are a smaller company without EDI capabilities or do a smaller amount of PO business (less than 50 PO’S per month with General Mills) the Taulia Supplier Portal is the perfect option for you. The Portal provides email alerts for any new PO or PO changes and allows the supplier to submit invoices to General Mills.

Team General Mills EDI analysts and mappers are ready to help you understand GMI specifications and facilitate testing to get automated integration up and running quickly.

Contact Taulia Enrollment Team for questions related to the Taulia Supplier Portal.

Contact Team General Mills EDI for any questions related to standard EDI. 

Supplier Transactions - Sourcing (NA)

Transactions	Standard/Version	Description
810	X12/4010	Ingredients and Packaging Invoice
850	X12/4010	Ingredients and Packaging Purchase Order
856	X12/4010	Supplier ASN
860	X12/4010	Ingredients and Packaging PO Change
997	X12/4010	Functional Acknowledgement

Support documents: 

EDI 810 Invoice FAQ
EDI 850/860 Purchase Order FAQ
EDI 856 ASN FAQ
EDI 997 Functional Acknowledgement
Interpreting EDI Translation Error Messages
Vendor Pallet Label Requirements
Standard Shipping Label Example
SSCC18 Pallet Labeling Scenarios

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Transportation

Access timely and accurate information to make the transportation business process smooth and easy.

EDI is an excellent tool to optimize transportation business processes. Timely and accurate information can be exchanged without error leading to just-in-time utilization of capacity and movement of goods with minimal manual intervention. 

Our team of analysts and mappers are ready to help you understand our specifications and facilitate testing to get automated integration up and running quickly.

On the carrier and rail side, we support the 204/404 load tender, 990 load tender response, 214 load status and 210/410 invoice transactions.

Truck and Rail Transportation Transactions (NA)

Transaction	Standard/Version	Description
204	X12/4010	Motor Carrier Load Tender
210	X12/4010	Motor Carrier Freight Details and Invoice
214	X12/4010	Transportation Carrier Shipment Status Msg
404	X12/4010	Rail Carrier Shipment Information
410	X12/4010	Rail Carrier Freight Details and Invoice
990	X12/4010	Motor Carrier Response Load Tender
997	X12/4010	Functional Acknowledgement

Support Documents

EDI Documents for Transportation
Interpreting EDI Translation Error Messages
214 Business Guide & Rejections
210 Business Guide
EDI 997 Functional Acknowledgement

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Warehouse

Discover features to help optimize warehousing business processes, shipping, receiving and inventory balance.

EDI is an excellent tool to optimize warehousing business processes. Timely and accurate information can be exchanged without error leading to just-in-time utilization of capacity and movement of goods. Our team of analysts are ready to help you understand our specifications and facilitate testing to ultimately integrate our systems in a production environment.

The base set of transactions for a warehouse include the shipping 940/945, receiving 856/944, and inventory balance 846. 

Copack or special pack operations may also include production orders 850/860. Sites that store raw materials may also implement the 855. Additional transactions are provided to further integrate processes if able. Please discuss your scope with your assigned EDI analyst.

Warehouse Transactions - Supply Chain (NA)

Transaction Spec / Support Docs	Standard/Version	Description
214 / 214 FAQ	UCS/4030	Warehouse Shipment Status (Truck Arrived, Trailer Loaded)
846 / 846 FAQ	USC/4030	Inventory Snapshot
850 / 850 FAQ	X12/4010	Production Order
852 / See 846 FAQ	UCS/4010	Inventory Activity
855 / 855 FAQ	UCS/4010	Copy of Vendor PO
856 / 856 FAQ	UCS/4010	Advance Ship Notice (Interplant, Vendor)
860 / See 850 FAQ	X12/4010	Production Order Change
888 / 888 FAQ	UCS/4030	Item Maintenance
940 / 940 FAQ	UCS/4010	Warehouse Shipping Order
940 / 940 FAQ	UCS/4030	Warehouse Shipping Order (Supports Additional Capabilities)
943 / 943 FAQ	X12/4010	Notice to Receive
944 / 944 FAQ	UCS/4010	Notice of Receipt (Vendor PO, Interplant, Production & Customer Return)
945 / 945 FAQ	UCS/4010	Notice of Shipment
947 / 947 FAQ	UCS/4010	Inventory Adjustments (QI, Quality Change, Stock Adj, Dump/Destroy)
947 / 947 FAQ	UCS/4010	Inventory Status (Outbound): (Green Light / Reach & Hold)
997	X12/4010	Functional Acknowledgement

*The 4030 version of the 940 supports COR/COE, Products Substitution, Order Type & Customer Specific Freshness Requirements. 

Support Documents:

EDI Transaction Sets for Logistics Document
All GMI EDI SC Transaction Set Raw Data Examples
947 EDI Cheat Sheet
GMI EDI 947 Cheat Sheet Raw Data Examples
Auto Fax Request Document
Interpreting EDI Translation Error Messages
EDI 997 Functional Acknowledgement

Initial Implementation Surveys

EDI Requirements Supply Chain
EDI Survey for Warehouse Trading Partner
EDI Survey Operational

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Technical Support

At General Mills we have two options available to transfer data:

Direct connection through AS2
VAN connection or interconnect (IBM Sterling)

Here is our AS2 information for North America and International:

Download North America or International AS2 information.
Download North America or International AS2 public certificate.
Download North America AS2 Test public certificate.

CONTACT INFO:

Email
General Mills AS2 Support Team
Team General Mills EDI North America
Contact Team General Mills EDI International

Telephone
Team General Mills EDI
(763) 293-3000
(800) 643-6472

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