Personally I wouldn't wait for the drop-ship vendor's invoice before invoicing my customer, especially since you also receive an ASN. The only issue might be pricing or other charges that you didn't anticipate, such as transportation. In the case of transportation, an additional invoice could be generated to your customer for shipping charges only once you know them. Cash flow rules the game and to delay invoicing your customer doesn't make sense to me. However, you didn't indicate the elapsed time between receipt of the ASN and the invoice from the vendor. I'm assuming they are both electronic. If yes, you should be able to receive them within a very short elapsed time frame. If your vendor won't cooperate with you I'd look for another supplier. Rachel vendor initiated purchase orderI would appreciate any feedback the EDI list members could give me on the scenario outlined below. We are a distributor of hard goods to business customers. A large portion of our orders come from our inventory for our customers as well as drop ship from our vendors. Our systems do not generate invoices to our customers for drop ship orders until we receive and validate our vendor's invoice. There is a belief among some of business community members that we should not wait for a vendor invoice to generate the customer invoice, but instead generate an invoice to our customers when we receive an ASN from the drop ship vendor. Are any of you folks doing this today? Thanks, Robert Paterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================= To signoff the EDI-L list, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/edi-l%40listserv.ucop.edu/
