The Purchasing and Material Management Implementation Guideline contains conventions for purchasing documents including purchase orders, invoices and acknowledgments. This publication includes industry conventions on the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) ASC X12 Invoice (810), Price/Sales Catalog (832), and Purchasing Suite (850/855/860/865) of transactions sets based on version/release 3030. The guideline also contains industry conventions for the ANSI ASC X12 Payment Order/Remittance Advice (820) Transaction Set based on version/release 3040 as well as the Request for Quotation (840) and Response to Request for Quotation (843) based on version/release 2040. In addition, conventions for the Ship Notice/Manifest (856), Order Status Inquiry (869), and Order Status Report (870) transaction sets based on version/release 3010 are included as well.