Richard, One benefit of subscribing to this list is the opportunity to interact with people from a full spectrum of experience with EDI. Some are like you and me, old farts who know what BAL and Autocoder are, and what to do with them, and others who used to be in the typing pool, but they dissolved that so the obvious place to put them is something easy like EDI.
"Because they can" is one answer, but "that's the way we've always done it" And "I didn't know you could do it any other way" are contenders also. On the other hand, perhaps a few do as they do just to try to manipulate the system. By forcing that field to contain a specific value on which they evidently key, they are increasing the probability that the document will be rejected. To do so on an invoice is genius. Keep smilin'. Nothing is worth ruining your day. Art Douglas Manager, eCommerce Systems PaperPak San Dimas, CA 909-971-5025 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hurd, Richard [SLCUS] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 7:14 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: [EDI-L] SAC15 required text So has anyone else encountered an issue with a business partner who insists that you place specific text in an SAC15 segment in their 810? And if that text is not there, they will reject the invoice? I would have thought that the SAC is replete with many code and ID fields for that purpose. Why are they using the description field? (Cue the standard EDI answer: "Because they can." I know, I know.) Rich Hurd Senior Analyst, Business Application Management Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies North American Consumer IM 908-874-1523 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] . 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 . 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/
