I know this is going to be a bit left of center for the original question, but....
I'm continued to be amazed that EDI "professionals" continue to raise questions to this group without giving a hint that they have checked with the specific Trading Partner first. I also amazed that some EDI departments appear to discourage or not want to contact their Trading Partners when they have these and other related questions. As so many others have posted, you need to contact EACH of your Trading Partners to find out what their requirements are, ESPECIALLY for 856's - because if you can't say or spell chargebacks, I'm quite sure accounting department can. But before that, you probably should (have already) contact each of them and request the following: 1. EDI Contact information, including names, email addresses AND phone numbers. If possible get at least two contacts from the Trading Partner (unless that one contact is a robot who never takes a vacation or has a sick day that turns into 10 days hospitalization because of an accident). I was about flabbergasted when I started an EDI position several years ago with a company that had about 75+ Trading Partners, yet only had 6 TP contacts listed for use within a department. After you have create the list, do yourself a favor - take some time at least twice a year and follow up with that Trading partner to insure your contacts are current. You'll know what I mean when you just assume you have a current contact for TP XYZ, and 18 mos later when you do have a question, you find out so & so you emailed comes back undeliverable and the phone call to them reaches someone else who has no idea how to spell EDI, yet alone tell you what happened to that ASN for the largest shipment in company history. 2. A list of specs for every EDI transaction they want to trade with your company. 3. Establish transaction transmission guidelines and expectations with your trading partner - how soon does the 856 need to arrive at the company, how soon will the company send a 997 for your outbound transmissions, how soon does the company expect a 997 for the transmissions they are sending you. In regards to the last section, I'm a stickler to sending and receiving 997's. If you have any sort of a decent EDI system, your 997's should be the most simplest and easiest document to set up and in most cases, it just a matter of checking the field that says WE WANT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and YES WE WILL SEND YOU ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. I look upon this as a matter of professional courtesy - if you are "nice" enough to send me some EDI, I'm going to be nice enough to let you know I got it by acknowledging it. But on the other side of the coin, if my system is going to generate EDI for you, then I most certainly want to know if you got my document, so please send me a 997 back, EVEN if you are already sending me an 855 or 865. Usually those ##5 documents are generated several hours to a few days after receipt of the original ##0 document, but if you/they never got the original ##0 document, a ##5 document will never ever get generated in return. And with that being said, I relenquish the soap box..... Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________ From: elan_dorsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 3:46:49 PM Subject: [EDI-L] Questinon on UCC-128 labels/EDI 856 for pallet-level shipping Hello Everyone; I'm doing an EDI integration for EDI856 and UCC-128 labels for retail. We ship to a customer using pallets. For example, the customer wants 60 cases and wants it packed 20 cases per pallet giving 3 pallets shipped. When generating the EDI856, do we need to generate 60 UCC-128 labels for each case and 3 pallet labels, with the pallet referencing the ucc- 128 label for each case. Thanks [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/
