RE: BOL VICS 2001 Standard

Bill:

I had been responding individually, but so many people on the BPCS-L group
have sent inquiries that I have decided to publish my response on the list
server. My apologies to any who object ... But this message does have some
properties of a sales pitch ...

Answer to "How variant is our version from the vanilla VICS document
format?" : We added information for Wal-Mart that we can trigger not to
print for other customers ... The headings for that info are added by our
program to the pre-printed multi-part form ... Other than that, there is
some column spacing that doesn't exactly match the layout published by
VICS, but our take has been that these specs were at least a little bit
malleable ... If you feel differently, it should not be such a big deal to
modify the PRTF .. The important thing is that we have the content in place
...

I will publish our layouts in PDF format on our web site this weekend ...
And will send them to you directly ASAP ...

And yes, we do the supplement, mark-for and ship-to, LTL and FTL . I am not
certain about consolidated ... I will check with our author and elaborate
tomorrow ...

Our solution for VICS bill of lading document compliance is a subset of our
EDI integration toolset for the AS/400. We are making it available as a
standalone to help companies that are struggling with customer standards
for compliance. This has all developed in the last month or so, so please
forgive me for not being fully prepared marketing-wise ...

Our solution takes advantage of the fact that the VICS bill of lading has
properties that closely model those that you have to address in order to do
a good job producing an electronic bill of lading (like the X.12 856 ship
notice and EDIFACT DESADV documents).

Producing the electronic bills of lading is what our product's main focus
is ... The printed bill of lading is actually a side benefit ... The reason
we can support the VICS document is that we already had the data collection
and supporting database issues covered for eCommerce versions ... For BPCS
sites (and most others, we expect) this is where the ERP product lacks
panache ... So, when one of our clients needed to hit the VICS form, we
were already there ...

This is about all I can put in print on short notice. You can visit our web
site at http://www.imcedi.com for a look at the superordinate product that
the app lies within ... It is called The EDI Tool Kit ...

Thanks for the inquiry ...

Regards,


John G. Dyer, CDP
Vice President
Information Management Consultants, Inc.
812.421.0045 ext. 203
jdyer@imcedi.com


                                                                                
                
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     John,

     Thanks for the good news. I was thinking that no one had tackled
this one yet in the BPCS world.

     How variant is the BOL that you have? We do both LTL and Full direct
loads. We also do the Mark for / Ship to feature, as well as the
consolidated shipment. The Supplemental form would be of common use in our
environment. Does the Wal-Mart version cover these scenarios?

                                         Thanks for
your rapid response,



Bill.





-----Original Message-----
From: jdyer@IMCEDI.COM [mailto:jdyer@IMCEDI.COM]
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:27 PM
To: BPCS-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: BOL VICS 2001 Standard



Bill:

My company publishes an add-on that produces the Wal-Mart variant of the
VICS bill of lading document.

Please contact me directly if you would like more information.

Regards,

John G. Dyer, CDP
Vice President
Information Management Consultants, Inc.
812.421.0045 ext. 203
jdyer@imcedi.com

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