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This formatting specification describes a rendering of the UBL Order document model according to the United Nations Layout Key for Trade Documents guidelines for application for the 220 Order form:
220 Order: Document by means of which a buyer initiates a transaction with a seller involving the supply of goods as specified, according to conditions set out in an offer, or otherwise known to the buyer.
For a list of all formatting specifications and an overview of the documentation conventions, please visit the formatting specification home page.
This specification has no formal status at this time. It should not be considered a reference interpretation of UBL documents. Feedback is sought from users of stylesheets that implement this formatting specification regarding suggestions for change for consideration by the OASIS UBL committees for incorporation into these formatting specifications.
Presentational semantics may never be formalized or normative in the UBL project due to differing international requirements and conventions for the presentation of information found in business documents. This document contains only examples from a few of what will probably be many available UBL stylesheet libraries.
The following is an example rendering that illustrates the position and decoration of the information items found in an instance of the document type:
PDF printable format (A4 page size)
PDF printable format (US-letter page size)
Items in this formatting specification are ordered roughly from the laid out fields on the form in the order left-to-right, top to bottom.
Certain descriptions are verbatim quotes from the United Nations guidelines document.
Important: the rendering of a number of fields is very simplified, reflecting a Western European interpretation of a subset of fields (as in names and addresses). User requirements need to be better understood for the level of granularity in these formatting specifications.
The following namespaces are mapped to the prefixes in the expressions below:
xmlns:po="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:Order-1.0"
xmlns:cac="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-1.0"
xmlns:cbc="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-1.0"
The following information is unrelated to the visible fields of the form.
Header information is associated with the form as a whole, not to the individual items of goods.
Box Label: "Seller"
Table 1. XPath information
XPath addresses |
/po:Order/cac:SellerParty/cac:Party/cac:PartyName/cbc:Name |
/po:Order/cac:SellerParty/cac:Party/cac:Address/cbc:BuildingNumber |
/po:Order/cac:SellerParty/cac:Party/cac:Address/cbc:StreetName |
/po:Order/cac:SellerParty/cac:Party/cac:Address/cbc:CityName |
/po:Order/cac:SellerParty/cac:Party/cac:Address/cbc:CountrySubentity |
/po:Order/cac:SellerParty/cac:Party/cac:Address/cac:CountrySubentityCode |
/po:Order/cac:SellerParty/cac:Party/cac:Address/cbc:PostalZone |
/po:Order/cac:SellerParty/cac:Party/cac:Address/cac:Country/cbc:Name |
This field is intended to show the name and address of the sender of goods or the originator of the documents, as the case may be.
Note that only one of cbc:CountrySubentity and cac:CountrySubentityCode need be used, with preference to cbc:CountrySubentity if it exists.
Box Label: "Purchase order number"
This number is a unique number assigned to the order by the buyer.
Box Label: "Date"
This field states the date of the order.
Box Label: "Seller’s reference (Quote no.)"
This field provides a seller assigned reference to the order.
Box Label: "Buyer’s reference"
This field provides the buyer's reference to the order.
Box Label: "Other reference (Contract no.)"
This field provides the contract reference if applicable.
Box Label: "Consignee"
Table 19. XPath information
XPath addresses |
/po:Order/cac:BuyerParty/cac:Party/cac:PartyName/cbc:Name |
/po:Order/cac:Delivery/cac:DeliveryAddress/cbc:BuildingNumber |
/po:Order/cac:Delivery/cac:DeliveryAddress/cbc:StreetName |
/po:Order/cac:Delivery/cac:DeliveryAddress/cbc:CityName |
/po:Order/cac:Delivery/cac:DeliveryAddress/cbc:CountrySubentity |
/po:Order/cac:Delivery/cac:DeliveryAddress/cac:CountrySubentityCode |
/po:Order/cac:Delivery/cac:DeliveryAddress/cbc:PostalZone |
/po:Order/cac:Delivery/cac:DeliveryAddress/cac:Country/cbc:Name |
These fields are used to provide the name and address of the receiver of the goods involved in the transaction.
Note that only one of cbc:CountrySubentity and cac:CountrySubentityCode need be used, with preference to cbc:CountrySubentity if it exists.
Box Label: "Buyer"
Table 22. XPath information
XPath addresses |
/po:Order/cac:BuyerParty/cac:Party/cac:PartyName/cbc:Name |
/po:Order/cac:BuyerParty/cac:Party/cac:Address/cbc:BuildingNumber |
/po:Order/cac:BuyerParty/cac:Party/cac:Address/cbc:StreetName |
/po:Order/cac:BuyerParty/cac:Party/cac:Address/cbc:CityName |
/po:Order/cac:BuyerParty/cac:Party/cac:Address/cbc:CountrySubentity |
/po:Order/cac:BuyerParty/cac:Party/cac:Address/cac:CountrySubentityCode |
/po:Order/cac:BuyerParty/cac:Party/cac:Address/cbc:PostalZone |
/po:Order/cac:BuyerParty/cac:Party/cac:Address/cac:Country/cbc:Name |
These fields are used to provide the name and address of the buyer of the goods involved in the transaction.
Note that only one of cbc:CountrySubentity and cac:CountrySubentityCode need be used, with preference to cbc:CountrySubentity if it exists.
Box Label: "Buyer bank"
At this time this field is not being used in the order.
Box Label: "Country of origin"
Table 27. XPath information
XPath address |
/po:Order/cac:OrderLine/cac:LineItem/cac:Item/cac:OriginCountry/cbc:Name |
At this time this field is not being used in the order.
Box Label: "Country of destination"
This fields provides the name of the destination country.
Transportation fields are header-like information and are applicable to the entire order.
Box Label: "Mode of transport"
At this time this field is not being used in the order.
Box Label: "Date of despatch"
At this time this field is not being used in the order.
Box Label: "Means of transport"
At this time this field is not being used in the order.
Box Label: "Place of despatch"
At this time this field is not being used in the order.
Box Label: "Vessel/flight No."
At this time this field is not being used in the order.
Box Label: "Port of loading"
At this time this field is not being used in the order.
Box Label: "Port of discharge"
At this time this field is not being used in the order.
Box Label: "Place of delivery"
At this time this field is not being used in the order.
Box Label: "Terms of delivery"
This fields provides the INCOTERM code for the terms of delivery.
Box Label: "Location"
This field provides the location name (if relevant) associated to the delivery terms.
Box Label: "Special terms"
This field provides free text description of special conditions relating to the delivery terms.
Box Label: "Terms of payment"
At this time this field is not being used in the order.
Box Label: "Currency of payment"
This specifies the payment currency for the entire order.
The consignment information holds generic details and totals relating to all the goods items in the order.
Box Label: "Shipping marks; container number"
At this time this field is not being used in the order.
Box Label: "No. and kind of packages; description of goods"
At this time this field is not being used in the order.
Box Label: "Total gross weight (kg)"
This field provides the gross weight of the order (not the shipment as it is not known at the order stage).
Box Label: "Total cube(m3)"
This field provides the gross volume of the order (not the shipment as it is not known at the order stage).
Box Label: "Total net weight (kg)"
This field provides the net weight of the order (not the shipment as it is not known at the order stage).
Line item information is associated with the individual item of goods in the order
Box Label: "Item / References"
Table 75. XPath information
XPath addresses |
/po:Order/cac:OrderLine/cac:LineItem/cac:BuyersID |
/po:Order/cac:OrderLine/cac:LineItem/cac:SellersID |
The first reference is the buyer's assigned reference to the line item.
The second reference is the seller's assigned reference to the line item.
Box Label: "Description"
Table 78. XPath information
XPath address |
/po:Order/cac:OrderLine/cac:LineItem/cac:Item/cbc:Description |
This provides a free text description of the line item.
Box Label: "Country of origin"
Table 81. XPath information
XPath address |
/po:Order/cac:OrderLine/cac:LineItem/cac:Item/cac:OriginCountry/cbc:Name |
This field is used to provide to country of origin for the line item.
Box Label: "Commodity code"
Table 84. XPath information
XPath address |
/po:Order/cac:OrderLine/cac:LineItem/cac:Item/cac:CommodityClassification/cac:CommodityCode |
This field is used to provide the commodity code for the line item.
Box Label: "Quantity"
This field states the number of items ordered for the line item.
Box Label: "Unit price"
Table 90. XPath information
XPath address |
/po:Order/cac:OrderLine/cac:LineItem/cac:Item/cac:BasePrice/cbc:PriceAmount |
This field is used to specify the unit price of the line item.
Summary information is associated to the entire order and not to any individual line item.
Box Label: "Notes"
This notes field is used for any free text information that relates to the entire order.
Box Label: "Total amount"
Table 99. XPath information
XPath addresses |
/po:Order/po:TransactionCurrencyCode |
/po:Order/cbc:LineExtensionTotalAmount |
Two data fields populate one form field: the currency and the total amount.
The total amount is the total of all the individual line items and is not calculated it will be transmitted.
Box Label: ""
Two data fields populate this one form field: the currency and the total amount.
The total amount is the total of all the individual line items and is not calculated it will be transmitted.
Box Label: "Name of signatory"
Table 104. XPath information
XPath address |
/po:Order/cac:BuyerParty/cac:Party/cac:Contact/cbc:Name |
This fields identified the name of the signatory.
Box Label: "Place and date of issue"
Table 107. XPath information
XPath addresses |
/po:Order/cac:BuyerParty/cac:Party/cac:Address/cbc:CityName |
/po:Order/cac:BuyerParty/cac:Party/cac:Address/cbc:CountrySubentity |
/po:Order/cac:BuyerParty/cac:Party/cac:Address/cac:CountrySubentityCode |
/po:Order/cbc:IssueDate |
The above fields provide information relating to the date and place of issue of the order.
Note that only one of cbc:CountrySubentity and cac:CountrySubentityCode need be used, with preference to cbc:CountrySubentity if it exists.
The continuation page comprises only a copy of the document identification information described in Section 3, “Main document and party information” and room for additional line item entries described in Section 7.1, “Item / References”. Alternative box representations are described below:
Box Label: "Item / References"
Table 112. XPath information
XPath addresses |
/po:Order/cac:OrderLine/cac:LineItem/cac:BuyersID |
/po:Order/cac:OrderLine/cac:LineItem/cac:SellersID |
The first reference is the buyer's assigned reference to the line item.
The second reference is the seller's assigned reference to the line item.
Box Label: "Description"
Table 115. XPath information
XPath address |
/po:Order/cac:OrderLine/cac:LineItem/cac:Item/cbc:Description |
This provides a free text description of the line item.
Box Label: "Country of origin"
Table 118. XPath information
XPath address |
/po:Order/cac:OrderLine/cac:LineItem/cac:Item/cac:OriginCountry/cbc:Name |
This field is used to provide to country of origin for the line item.
Box Label: "Commodity code"
Table 121. XPath information
XPath address |
/po:Order/cac:OrderLine/cac:LineItem/cac:Item/cac:CommodityClassification/cac:CommodityCode |
This field is used to provide the commodity code for the line item.
Box Label: "Quantity"
This field states the number of items ordered for the line item.
Box Label: "Unit price"
Table 127. XPath information
XPath address |
/po:Order/cac:OrderLine/cac:LineItem/cac:Item/cac:BasePrice/cbc:PriceAmount |
This field is used to specify the unit price of the line item.