John,
Not quite.....(snip) but thats just like having a TPA.
Purchase terms and conditions can and do encompass conrtractual obligations
totally separate and independent of the method by which a purchase order is
conveyed to a potential supplier. My experience has been that it's always
best to keep PO terms and conditions separate from any edi TP agreement.
Such an edi TP agreeement can rather become an edi manual which documents
all of the things specific to the electronic exchange of business messages.
Such a document should spell out key contacts, processing times, etc., VANs
or other comm modes, id's/identifiers, problem resolution procedures,
message implementation specifications, and so on. I certainly wouldn't
recommend mushing (that's a technical term!) all of this detail into
purchasing terms and conditions, which exist (or should) independent of
transport mode.
Rachel
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