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Conversion of data from the customers numbers (ship to locations, part numbers, etc) is one of the biggest hassles of EDI. Again, this is not really an EDI problem, it is the lack of function in the application. Most ERP systems have a place for cross reference info (ie customers part number), and the translators have incorporated good integration (they allow you to create an external table to look up the cross reference info). Again, these are application issues not EDI. I hear the XML will kill EDI, but the "problems" with EDI will exist with XML also. A new data format is not going to fix any of EDI's shortcomings. cjg Carl J. Galgano EDI Consulting Services, Inc. 550 Kennesaw Avenue, Suite 800 Marietta, GA 30060 (770) 422-2995 - voice (419) 730-8212 - fax mailto:cgalgano@ediconsulting.com http://www.ediconsulting.com AS400 EDI, Networking, E-Commerce and Communications Consulting and Implementation http://www.icecreamovernight.com Premium Ice Cream Brands shipped Overnight FREE AS/400 Timesharing Service - http://www.ediconsulting.com/timeshare.html "You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know" - rw -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Buck Calabro Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 2:40 PM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: RE: EDI at midrange sites - Off Topic?? Al Mac had some excellent insight on how the trading partner can be your worst enemy in the EDI process, and I'll add only one thing to his remarks: Typically, EDI is driven by the larger trading partner. When General Electric says "You will use EDI" then you use EDI. When General Electric decides to use the Contact Name field to store the Purchase Order Number, you're not likely to tell them to pound salt no matter how much the urge strikes you. The number one difficulty I had with EDI was NOT setting up the translation tables (Premenos running on AS/400). The main issue was _integrating_ EDI into our daily operations. When GE sent in a PO, it had to be translated into our customer numbers, our part numbers and input into our order entry system. There's no existing function to do that in O/E, so we had to write that. GE wanted an acknowledgement, verifying quantities and prices. Another new function. GE wanted a shipping manifest. Another new function. Work payments into the picture and you can see that there are potentially quite a few places your existing system needs to expose an interface to the outside world. Unless you simply detail somebody to hand-key the stuff into the existing applications... --buck _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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