Leah, Again, it's our own manual system - the way we create a physical PO.... Buyer handwrites an order worksheet.... Buying assistant enters a PO into the merchandising system (Island Pacific) from this worksheet. Creates a block out and releases the block out. Prints the released block out (now a PO) and gives it to the buyer for approval. Buyer approves (or makes changes to!) the PO. PO is then given to a buying VP for final approval. At this point, it is still the ORIGINAL PO - Revision zero... Unless, of course, they've made changes.... Once the PO has final approval, the assistant goes back into the system and revises the PO to change the EDI flag to Y and releases the PO. This is now REVISION 1 - unless other changes have been made... At the appropriate time, the EDI Load program runs (in Island Pacific), pulls all of the EDI - Y POs and loads them into our translator (Trusted Link i-Series). They are then sent out during the communications session. Again, basically EVERY PO goes out as a REVISION - simply based upon the fact that the ORIGINAL PO was revised to change the EDI flag. Even if the vendor/trading partner has NEVER SEEN THE PO, it is still a revision. They get the PO with the '00' code in the BEG segment, showing that it's an Original Order - because we've hardcoded the '00' into the segment. If not, nearly every PO we send out would have the '05' data in the BEG 01 element, marking it as a "Replacement" - which it can't be, as the vendor never received the "original".....
And, again, because our our internal process to create the PO, and with nearly all POs being sent out as a revision, we cannot use the 860 POC, as again, nearly all POs would go out as the 860 instead of the 850. Leah, I think you missed the part about the PO load in the original post.... Craig E. Dunham EDI Coordinator EYE Analyst Big 5 Sporting Goods 310-297-7654 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________ From: Leah Halpin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 8:49 AM To: Dunham Craig E. Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Re: PO change request. Hi Craig, I'm confused. If the PO is never sent to the supplier until is is super duper approved and never even put into the file that goes to your translator, how is the 850 going to the supplier not an original PO? They've never seen any other PO, with this same PO number, right? You haven't described your process for changing PO's so I'm wondering, too, about the part where you say you can't send either an 860 or a "replace" 850. Maybe I'm just not reading this right. I am very interested in understanding how something like this develops, though, I always find the genesis of these issues fascinating. Leah [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> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
