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We can do EDI anyway the customer wants. They
can fax me an order hand written on dirty paper and I’ll process it
through EDI (trust me). “Real” EDI is preferable but that has some
structure like X12. Fax to OCR to flat file is EDI. _________________________________ From: Chuck
Boucos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I haven’t chimed
into these discussions much lately, but I have to agree with Nestor here. As an EDI Consultant, if
a client of mine wants me to take a spreadsheet sent from a Trading Partner of
theirs and build a map that will reformat it into an XML document that the
client will import into their back-office system, I’m certainly not going
to say “Nope, can’t do it, because I’m an EDI
Consultant”. At the same time, I’m not going to drop “EDI”
from my title because I did it. The Spreadsheet was
received electronically, it contains data, and the whole operation was an
interchange. “EDI” It may be a matter of
perspective. A person doing the mapping may not think of spreadsheets as EDI,
but the person in the Corner Office probably does, and I would agree with that
guy. (He’s the one approving my bill.) I would define EDI as the
entire discipline, and X12 as a sub-set, for lack of a better word. If X12 is
the defining part of EDI, then (as has been said in another response) what do
you call HL7 folks, or EDIFACT folks, or anyone who uses proprietary formats? A
business document isn’t necessarily defined by its envelope structure or
Standard. The transaction that the gas pump sends to EXXON may or may not be
X12 (I don’t know) but it certainly is a business document. From: Jon
Garniss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have to
disagree; EDI is the application to application exchange of business documents.
Spreadsheets are not EDI. Unless of course they are sending you a spreadsheet that
has the Enveloping structures and X12/EDIFACT data. Then maybe they could be
called EDI. Jon Garniss EDI Specialist =========== -----Original Message----- I think you are confusing EDI with
standards. You can do EDI anyway you want – it is whether you have to
comply with standards where things get split. From: Dubost, Mike
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I read all the posts here and am
wondering if any of you are getting requests for “spreadsheets” to
be sent to customers calling it EDI?
It’s looking like anything transmitted is being called EDI without it
actually being EDI as I know it or you folks talk
about. Mike D
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