Dear EDI-L,
We are mapping to the D.96A UN/EDIFACT PRICAT message and have come across
structural problems.
We need to link one or many Allowances (ALCs) back to one specific price
(PRI loop occurrence). However, the Allowances loop (ALC) is not nested
inside the Pricing loop (PRI), which means we must define an explicit link
between ALC and PRI loop (something like an SGP segment which links GIDs to
EQDs, for those familiar with shipping/container messaging).
We had been using ALC.7160 to carry a "price cross reference", made up of
concatenated fields from the specific "parent" PRI segment, but there are
some cases in which this price cross reference calculates out to be the same
for different PRI loops. What we really need is a unique reference to link
particular ALCs to one particular PRI segment, and one only.
We have thought of putting a sequential counter in the APR segment, which
itself occurs once only in the PRI loop, then repeating it in its associated
ALC(s) to link those ALC(s) back to the parent PRI via this "cross
reference" (see example below, please excuse syntax):
PRI+......
APR+123....
PRI+...
APR+124....
PRI+...
APR+125
ALC+++123
ALC+++123
ALC+++123
ALC+++124
ALC+++124
ALC+++125
Suggested example above links those ALC segments (123) with the PRI loop
occurrance containing APR(123), ALC(124) with PRI occurrence 124 etc.
Can anyone assist with an opinion on this suggestion above or an alternative
you may have tried??!
Any comments much appreciated.
Regards
Georgia Blomberg
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EAN Australia, Locked Bag 10 Oakleigh, 3166
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