Hello Pete! Softshare offers a Web-based solution called: Athena (athena.softshare.com) where smaller trading partner can receive and respond to EDI documents in an easy to use, Web-based interface. If you log in as a guest you will be able to create an 810 Invoice turn-around document from the 850 Purchase Order transaction. Similarly you can create an 856 response to an 830 document that is sitting in the guest mailbox for testing purposes (there are some other sample documents loaded as well). Any EDI document (X12 or EDIFACT) can be received and created using Athena and Athena also supports XML documents. Softshare offers this solution starting at $300 per year which means it is not only easy to use but it is also very affordable. Athena does require IE 5 or above, we do not support Netscape. The benefit to the "hub" trading partner is the fact that EDI can be exchanged with all trading partners, large and small, even those using a Web-based system. There is also no fee for the hub trading partner to setup an Athena solution for its trading community. We currently support a number of hubs in their roll-out efforts to their smaller suppliers -- from automotive to health care to retail companies. Please don't hesitate to call us if you have any questions, and we welcome you to take a look at the Athena Web site http://athena.softshare.com/ using the 'ssguest' username and password. Colette Williams Softshare -----Original Message----- From: Pete Peters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 6:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FEEDBACK ON USAGE OF WEB BASED FORMS FOR NON-EDI CAPABLE TRADING PARTNERS I am looking for any feedback/opinions from anyone who has investigated or is currently utilizing web-based forms as a means of enabling electronic exchange of data with your trading partners who most likely never be edi capable. I know that software vendors like St. Paul, Peregrine, Kewill have web-base asp models to accomplish this. Does anyone have any exposure to these or any other like products? Are there alternatives where I could send outbound po's and have that document turned around into an invoice and asn by the trading partner to return to me? Thanks in advance for your input Pete Peters Prym Dritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================= To contact the list owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/edi-l%40listserv.ucop.edu/ ======================================================================= To contact the list owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/edi-l%40listserv.ucop.edu/
