Hi Leah, Yes I've seen the misuse as well. JAMA EDIFACT is a standard, the use, misuse or avoidance is a seperate issue. It's the same with ANSI, EDIFACT or any standard, you can do mappings that are compliant or not. :-)
Back to the orginal question, we recently did a Retail CPG project in Japan and while there were some unique Japanese requirements the base message standard was still EDIFACT and our library maps were 80% useable for ORDERS, DELFOR, etc. Outside North America EDIFACT is more widely used. Best Regards, James -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Which do you prefer, X12 or EDIFACT? From: Leah Halpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, September 05, 2008 11:00 am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steville Mims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Since you mention JAMA I just need to quickly chime in. The Japanese companies I've seen using JAMA have just forced a flat file into EDIFACT segments without regard for use of qualifiers or meaningful hierarchical looping structures, I don't consider this actually "using" a standard. Only slightly off-topic. Leah ------------------------------------ ... 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/
