Steve,
At a former employer I ran into OB10. Ultimately we had to cave. The customer required us to use OB10 so we had to pay up. The problem I had was that we had to enter the invoice on their website bypassing our normally EDI 810 creation process and injecting a manual process. YMMV. Good luck. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Moses, Steve Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 2:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [EDI-L] Thoughts on OB10 ? We trade with a major consumer electronics company that is now requesting we begin transacting Invoices through their selected clearinghouse which happens to be OB10 (www.OB10,com<http://www.OB10,com>). Yes they can accept EDI ANSI X.12, EDIFACT, XML, flat files etc... but they are requiring us to sign a contract for approx 1K/yr + .50/invoice. We cannot simply send the documents to our VAN and have them forwarded. They want their piece of the action. I hope this does not become trendy because any cost savings we get using EDI would be dwarfed by the expense having to have separate contracts with each trading partner (each at that cost). It seems we may be losing sight of the term 'trading partner'. We should be lowering the overall cost of the partnership pipeline not decreasing for one while loading it on the supplier (and the new cost far exceeds the cost of using the VAN) . thoughts ? Steve Moses Systems Analyst Iomega Corporation (303) 681-2593 [email protected] <mailto:moses%40iomega.com> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:moses%40iomega.com> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [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/
