Ken, this is diametrically opposed to my experience and the experience of
every EDI professional I've worked with over the past 15 years.
Implementing a new trading partner, even creating an entirely new map, is
seldom a build from scratch proposition. Our rule of thumb is, if trading
partner 1's PO takes X time to implement, TP2 will take 1/2X-2/3X, TP3 will
take 1/3X-1/2X and subsequent TP PO's will seldom exceed 1/4X and can be as
little as an hour. Invoices are even faster. In either direction. In a
customer driven world, if I'm generating the PO I get to write the
implementation guide and implementation is little more than doing a clerical
set up followed by data conformance evaluation, usually via an automated
tool.
Peter Olivola ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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> From: Electronic Data Interchange Issues
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Steel
>
> If it takes a week to implement a new trading partner using trad-EDI and
> there are 500 trading partners, it will take 10 years to cover the
> partner base. In practice, as more trading partners start to intertrade,
> each implementation will take longer and cost more as the amount of
> customisation required to implement each trading partner starts to
> conflict with customisation added to enable trading partners implemented
> earlier. The chaos caused by additive error rates will also take their
> toll.
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