I agree we absorb our costs and the customer absorb theirs.. Sounds like many trading partner agreements that are signed before a trading partnership begins.. what happens then is the major corporations outsource their testing and we, their trading partners, pay for it. Then once the 3rd party testing is completed, there is another round of testing with the customer directly.
Sorry to sound negative. I really like my job and all my EDI contacts I have talked to over the years. This is the one thing that really irritates me. Let's all play fair. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Mattias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 8:33 AM To: Denise Tate; EDI-L Subject: Re: [EDI-L] another round of testing fee's 2/14/06 > I was just greeted with an email outlining some EDI mapping changes from one > of our customers. The changes don't bother me as much as them charging me to test their new changes they want to implement. Just the perspective of an old executive who really did value his vendors.... I realize implementing changes to our EDI system will cost our vendors time and money, just as it will cost us time and money to implement those changes on our end. I'll ask our vendors to absorb their cost of those changes. I won't ask them to absorb ours as well; after all, we're the only party who benefits from those changes. That is, I think this can only be satisfactorily - and fairly - resolved somewhere above the pay grade of your customer's "EDI Contact" Michael Mattias Tal Systems, Inc. Racine WI [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
