----- Original Message -----
From: Rachel Foerster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: Success Story
> Scott,
>
> You clearly identify one of the major issues for a completely integrated EDI
> environment....clean data, accurate product identification, correct
> units-of-measure, etc. Companies that fail to clean their data during
> implementation and testing will reap only headaches and problems.
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: Success Story
> Michael,
> I would be curious to know out of those 66,000 line items, how many failed
> to load do to bad data sent by the customer?
For the curious: Mr. Maxwell did what I do all the time and hit "reply" so I got
his message twice, once through EDI-L and once at my own address. I answered him
thus on the direct one:
>Well, this is either good news or bad news: none failed. The ANSI supplied was
>100% clean, and the data corresponded perfectly to the supplied IG. The
customer
>uses the vendor's part number and had recently obtained a catalog, so all the
>part numbers were valid, too. (Yes, I am aware this story is almost 'too good
to
>be true.' )
I have saved Ms. Foerster's list of "do-bees" (and if you remember that, you
were almost certainly born prior to 1960). IMO it's a pretty good list for, "Ok,
boss, we can do EDI, but we do need some help from sales/service to make it a
success...."
Michael C. Mattias
Tal Systems
Racine WI
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