Quoted text is from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, by Ken Steel
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>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.
Ken
I have to join the group who disagree with you on this 'combinatorial
expansion of difficulty'. My experience has been that most people
exchange EDI within a business branch, and that the standardising effect
of major hubs, branch EDI standards groups, and a measure of freemasonry
amongst EDI practitioners in the same branch, leads to a business
document being matched to an EDI message/transaction in the same way for
the majority of partners in the branch.
Our converter profiling, which is very pragmatic, reflects this. Most
documents are defined as belonging to a default partner, and are used
for all unless another partner specific match has been found. Inserting
specific 'deviant' documents for certain partners is a form of exception
processing. To have a specific partner profile which does not conclude
with "USE DEFAULT" i.e. revert to standard document identification once
one or two exceptions have been identified, is unusual.
Regards
Chris
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