Steve Howards reply reminds me of the current situation with Sears Canada. Their 850/POs are accompanied by an 864/Text document which is used to print some special shipping labels. This is done for their big ticket, direct to customer items, where a special 6" x 6" label has to be printed with the customer name, address, etc....
I've seen 850/POs with many MTX text lines, but I don't remember seeing those segments on the 810/Inv. In addition, the 810 is designed to be loaded into their AP system, so that you can get paid. Most systems are going to ignore all the PID stuff that you send anyways. I would recommend sending an 864 in parallel with each 810. To: <[email protected]> From: "Parks, Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date sent: Thu, 25 May 2006 14:06:14 -0500 Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Handling unstructured text associated with an 810 > EDI does not deal well with unstructured text. The standard method for > reducing the volume is to assign codes as shorthand for the various > options. I would look at the code lists currently in the standards and > see if this problem has not already been addressed by one of your > competitors. > > Why does the invoice need to carry this detail? I can understand the > need for a detailed PO describing what is desired, but the invoice need > only refer back to the line number of the PO. > > Howard Parks > 1 Peter 4:10 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Steve D. Becker > Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [EDI-L] Handling unstructured text associated with an 810 > > We have a number of vendors that have traditionally included a lot of > unstructured text on their paper invoices, and this has presented > problems in moving these vendors to 810s. > <SNIP> Earl Wertheimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spe-edi.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get to your groups with one click. Know instantly when new email arrives http://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/OIFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix. Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L RSS feed is: http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/rss 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/
