Tools like UltraEdit have fairly fast search routines that let you query
an entire tree of a path for a specific text string.
Whatever these transactions are, they likely have some kind of an
identifiable string which could be equated to a "transaction".
Example: "^p^tTotal:" would be a [CRLF], [Tab], and the string "Total:"
Regular expressions are supported and you can do these searches in Hex
as well.
Thanks,
Martin Morrison
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Samantha Scott
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 11:28 AM
To: Bob Scheuermann
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [EDI-L] EDI Cost Analysis
Oh yes, I am doing all that. Calculating costs is the easy part
because so
many departments in IS here already do it. I know what to charge
per sq ft
of office space that we occupy and how many years to depreciate
the servers,
etc. It was assigning the value that has me stumped. Measuring
sales $ is
one thing but I also send a huge number of non-edi transactions
over our
servers between plants. Shouldn't I get credit for providing
that service
and what sort of value do we apply to it?
On 6/15/07, Bob Scheuermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:Scheuermann%40mentholatum.com> > wrote:
>
>
> Not to interject a bean-counting analysis to this, but aren't
the
> hardware/server costs and possibly software costs, office
equipment etc.
> amortized/depreciated? If so, wouldn't this would affect your
overall
> result?
>
> It's a very good question, I'm just wondering about this
component of
> the metric.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] <mailto:EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com>
<EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:
> [email protected] <mailto:EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com>
<EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of
> Dale Marthaller
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 1:45 PM
> To: Samantha Scott; [email protected]
<mailto:EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com> <EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: RE: [EDI-L] EDI Cost Analysis
>
> I would suggest that the metric would vary greatly depending
on the
> industry but since we are a sales based company our metric
would be EDI
> cost as a percentage of all sales and EDI cost as a percentage
of sales
> handled via EDI.
>
>
> Dale Marthaller (604) 461-6779
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: [email protected] <mailto:EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com>
<EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:
> [email protected] <mailto:EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com>
<EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of
> Samantha Scott
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 9:30 AM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com>
<EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [EDI-L] EDI Cost Analysis
>
> OK, so here's a Friday question...does anyone analyze the cost
of EDI?
>
> At my company we use these measurements to compare our
performance year
> to year - are we getting more or less value out of the
resources in each
> period, etc. We also use them to compare to similar numbers
across
> industries to see if we are performing well in comparison to
others. For
> instance our corporate help desk totals all the staff, office
space,
> computers & equipment etc and comes up with a cost per call to
the help
> desk. I think it sits around $12 right now which is on the low
side of
> average.
>
> So I can count up all the costs of servers and software
maintenance, VAN
> fees, etc., but what is my divisor? Cost per what?? I can
count the EDI
> transactions but that doesn't cover the non-EDI data that goes
through
> our servers untranslated. I archive everything systematically
in folders
> by month so I could compare the MB of data in each month which
does get
> the non-EDI stuff. What I am curious about is if anyone else
here has
> done this exercise, what you used for your metric divisor and
why?
>
> Thanks so much for any thoughts you have on the topic
>
> Samantha
>
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