Re: EDI vs E-Commerce Question - Pardon my ignorance...

Nina:
You are correct EDI is not effortless, but if the application interfaces are
well designed it should not be too painful bringing up additional partners
for the same EDI transaction.  The application interface should be as
generic as possible and let the mapper do all the unique to the trading
partner work.  We have seen some clients who try to use a pretty generic map
and hard code like crazy in the application interface programs.  It defeats
the purpose of the mapper.
CJG
Carl Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
540 Powder Springs Street
Suite C19
Marietta, GA  30064
770-422-2995
mailto: cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
http://www.ediconsulting.com
EDI, Communications and AS400 Technical Consulting

-----Original Message-----
From: nina jones <ddi@datadesigninc.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Friday, August 06, 1999 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: EDI vs E-Commerce Question - Pardon my ignorance...


>> One BIG question I have is if a supplier decides to allow PO entry over
>> the internet how this works. Currently everything I've seen is you fire
>> up your browser and hit a site and get screens to input info.
>
>we use asna's avr for visual programming, and are going to the next step
>to put these applications on the web in a couple of weeks.
>
>> With EDI ordering on the other hand, you would enter a PO through your
>> NORMAL process/package and if EDI capable, the order would go out that
>> way. Your data base is updated and they get the info they need...
>
>edi is not effortless.  by a long shot.
>
>nj
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