Re: ORD via EDI (was BPCS Users List Guidelines)

We did EDI on BPCS/36 but abandoned it when we moved to BPCS 400.
Our scenario was highly modified in which we created our own interface files 
containing data common to both EDI & BPCS.  The EDI data went to intermediate 
files, in which BPCS did not get updated when other users were involved.

We abandoned EDI mainly because our customers could not stick to any 
meaningful standards & had personnel with zero training in EDI constantly 
trying to change the rules of exceptions to EDI.

>  From:    bjarman@focalsystems.com.au

>  Would be interested in feedback on the following.
>  1. Details of BPCS users receiving and acknowledging customer orders via
>  EDI.
>  2. For those doing this are you using ECM or EDIPath for mapping to and
>  from BPCS.
>  3. If not are there any other products similar to ECM & EDIPath being used
>  for this purpose.
>  4. If you are using ECM do you process against the online day (ie. while
>  other staff are entering orders online to BPCS) and if so does this cause
>  any problems.

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