C'mon Ron! Newer IS better! I've found sheer insufferable ignorance plays a significant roll in many of these (costly!) decisions. Two questions for this customer: 1) Where's the value-add? 2) Why not pull out all the stops and ramp up to 6010? Bud/Customs
--- On Fri, 12/12/08, Ron <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ron <[email protected]> Subject: [EDI-L] Unnecessary upgrades To: [email protected] Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 7:50 AM Today, a major customer of ours asked us to upgrade a certain EDI transaction from version 4010 to version 4030. With the upgrade, there are some minor changes to the data sent. All those changes can be supported within version 4010, with the same segments and same elements. This is not the first time that trading partners ask us to upgrade from one version to a minor version above without taking any advantage of new features of the newer version. Besides the cost of my time, their time and no foreseeable benefits, there is another issue for me: testing the upgrade will be done by a 3rd party company and we need to pay for that test. So, I'd like to think about this with all of you to as for whom to blame: - A brilliant manager on the customer side? - DISA coming with new versions of EDI every other week - 3rd party companies that offer upgrade services What else? Ron Herrmann EDI Coordinator Brother International [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/
