[SYS21] Re: Harbinger & System 21 EDI - Traded and Consumer Units

Alan,
I think you're on the right track.  I'd vote for kits, so it stays in SOP and 
Inventory and you don't have processing in Manufacturing.
Doug

In a message dated 3/18/2003 8:14:12 AM Central Standard Time, 
alan.medows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> We are just introducing EDI using Harbinger and we have a problem when
> dealing with traded and consumer units for major accounts and independent
> accounts.
> Our multiple customers order in a traded unit of case / outer which is made
> up of, say, 10 consumer units  eg. 10 sets of coasters.  Our independent
> customers order in single units, eg 1 set of coasters.  The same item code
> was used for both the traded and consumer unit and the tele-operators used
> to key in the traded unit as 10 single units.
> All our EDI customers place orders using the EAN code.  The traded unit has
> a different EAN code from the consumer unit.  However, System 21 can only
> hold one EAN code per item and does not differentiate between an outer case
> or a product.  Harbinger passes  the EAN code (whether it is traded or
> consumer unit) through to the System 21 AI files.  It also passes through
> the number of consumer units in a traded unit through to the System 21 AI
> files.  Unfortunately some of this information is not passed through to the
> Order Entry,  Invoice files and  then back to the EDI AI files again.
> Therefore the problem manifests when we create EDI invoices for major
> accounts.  The consumer unit is shown rather than the traded unit and
> therefore the customer is unable to invoice match their original EDI order
> with the EDI invoice.
> The only suggestions we have come up with, but not yet tried out, are
> creating new items as kit lists or Bills of Materials for the traded unit
> items.  Creating traded units as BOM as an overhead of creating the initial
> BOM and the creation and completion of works orders when in actual fact it
> is a pseudo warehouse operation picking boxes of 10 or a number of single
> units.
> 
> Has anyone on this list have experiences to share in this area.
> 
> 
> 
> Alan Medows
> IT Administrator
> 
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