Leah Good luck with Home Depot. They never answer calls or emails.
> I've had an interesting question posed to me about Home Depot and GDS > Global Data Synchronization. A client has asked if the Inovis > translator is compliant with GDS Standards. Now, I did a little > googling and I even called Big Hammer (love that name) who is HD's > "preferred vendor" for this process. Since they've told me that they > don't accept 832 Catalog or any EDI, rather they use excel > spreadsheets and or data entry, I'm having a hard time understanding > how a translator (any translator) could be either compliant or > non-compliant. If the "synchronized" data is being sent in EDI > between customer and supplier withouth having to go through some third > party doing some fancy schmancy data conversion, as long as the ERP is > capable of interpreting and returning the data, if required, on the > ASN, it's no different from any other piece of data, right? Am I > missing something here? It has nothing to do with the translator. If Big Hammer cannot accept an 832, then it stops there. You have to do what the Hammer wants ;-( Your translator does not connect directly to the DataPool. The 832 is an EDI document used to load UPC data. The GDS exchange does not use it. Some Data Pools will allow you to load the database using the 832, but some do not. Many years ago, Inovis said that they would synch stuff for free once you got it into their Data Pool. They did accept 832s. In addition, look out for 'Marketing Data". It's stuff that is not covered in the 832s I've seen. That's how the Big Hammer can justify 'their way'. One of my clients spent thousands after HomeDepot said that it was going to require it... It's been many, many years and they are still paying for UCC annual membership that they do not need or use. You can do what I've done in the past with Home Depot. Ignore them until they make their requirements very clear. Earl Wertheimer [email protected] http://www.spe-edi.com ------------------------------------ ... 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/
