Debbie... I agree with the other posters who indicate that the line number is a "normal" requirement, BUT... Having been in the position of trying to implement PO's from the customer side, I'll put my 2 cents in that you might want to allow for a secondary type of match. Many "popular" systems don't keep the association to customer's PO line number all through the order's permutations and on out to the invoice. Therefore you will probably find some of your trading partners attempting to kludge together something to make this work. And they will probably be successful 90% of the time. To cover yourself for the other 10% is where a secondary match comes in. What I used was an item number match back to the purchase order. This meant that if the line number was not found / closed, I went to the item number to see if it appeared on the PO. This takes additional processing cycles, but it covered about 90% of the exceptions. That meant I had a whole lot fewer calls from A/P wondering what our suppliers had meant by what they sent. Phil Catlin -----Original Message----- From: "Debbie Shaver" < Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 4:44 PM To: "EDI-L" Subject: Purchase Order Line number on an 810 Invoice Transaction Hi all, Is it "normal" to require the associated purchase order line number on an 810 Invoice transaction?? We plan to use the PO line number to match to the associated PO (the PO number is also required) for verification purposes before we pay the invoice. If PO line number isn't usually sent on an invoice, how can you automatically match to the PO line?? We want to eliminate as much manual intervention as possible. Has anyone else encountered/overcome this problem?? Thanks in advance!!! Debbie Shaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] 206.318.8739 ======================================================================= 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/
