I hope that this doesn't duplicate, but I'm not sure if my second email made
it to the list or not. I'll assume that it did not, since I did not get a
rash of 'out of office' messages that I normally get.
Please read below.
Brian Test
E-Commerce Analyst
ACCO North America
300 Tower Parkway
Lincolnshire, IL 60069-3640
(800) 222-6462 x3973
(847) 419-4140 FAX
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-----Original Message-----
From: Test, Brian
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 9:00 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: WalMart PO number length
Does this serverlist have power or what! Not only do I thank you for your
responses, but I received a phone call from Wal-Mart personally to explain
the original letter that we had received. In short, the original letter
from Wal-Mart was misleading about what their usage of the PO# was for.
They did explain that the PO# length will still be the same, but it will
just be a sequential number now. However, they will expect the additional
information requested to be placed on the shipping label. Please check out
their new letter out on their website (Retail Link). Sorry, I do not have
the link.
Life is back to good!
Brian Test
E-Commerce Analyst
ACCO North America
300 Tower Parkway
Lincolnshire, IL 60069-3640
(800) 222-6462 x3973
(847) 419-4140 FAX
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-----Original Message-----
From: Test, Brian
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 7:29 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: WalMart PO number length
Hi All,
I'm sure that many of you have seen or heard the latest
request from WalMart. WalMart is changing their PO number length from 4 to
24 (for version 4010 and 4030). This affects all apparel and general
merchandise vendors (more importantly, ME!). Many of you will likely note
that the ANSI standard length for the PO number is 22 for version 4010 (not
sure for 4030), but if the field length doesn't fit your business need, then
ignore the standard. And, I can live with that.
However, what I don't like is that I do not believe that
WalMart ever thought about how this might affect their vendors. Not one of
our applications has a PO number field that long, and it will be very costly
to have mods put in all of our applications.
Yesterday, we had a brainstorming meeting on how we might
want to approach this op-por-tun-ity (it kills me to call it that).
However, I did not like any of our ideas on how to handle this, and I was
wondering if any of you are having the same problems, and how you might
handle this.
I have always found this forum to be very insightful.
As always, thanks for you advice.
Brian Test
E-Commerce Analyst
ACCO North America
300 Tower Parkway
Lincolnshire, IL 60069-3640
(800) 222-6462 x3973
(847) 419-4140 FAX
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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