Paul,
I think the use of TPA's is specific to various industry sectors. I've been
involved with electronic ordering (before we called it EDI) since the early
1970's and on only a handful of cases in the early 1990's were we (a major
medical products manufacturer/distributor) asked to sign a TPA. My former
employer transacted over 50% of its corporate revenues via electronic/EDI
ordering, with individual orders typically exceeding $500. Never once in all
of these decades in the medical products supply chain were there ever any
legal issues about electronic order entry/placement.
Additionally, I believe the experience of the federal government is
extremely illustrative of the barrier to EDI that the requirement for a TPA
becomes. I'm not saying that trading partners shouldn't document how they
plan to transact business electronically, but to enshrine a business
practice in a legal agreement is overkill. I don't sleep better when a
formal TPA is in place, but I do sleep better when trading partners work
together to agree on business processes and then document how they expect
those business processes to execute. This happens when it's truly a "trading
partner" relationship and each party recognizes and values each other. Let's
face it, customer's need their suppliers and suppliers need their suppliers
and their customers. None can stand alone without the other.
Rachel
Rachel said:
| In my experience trading partner agreeements are not commonly used at
all...
I am afraid I am going to have to sit on the fence here. About half my guys
require TPA's, half do not. (I sleep better when they do.)
Cheers,
Paul
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