"It seems we may be losing sight of the term 'trading partner'. " Yep, I have seen it happening also. These companies are totally void of understanding a business relationship. Shades of Wall-Street huh? This entire concept of relationship's and 'partnerships' seem to be lost in today's marketplace of out-sourcing and cost cutting. Companies have lost sight of how to actually work together to reduce overall costs and everyone benefits. Maybe the Wal-Mart forced approach soured the pie; just not sure.
Skip Stein <http://www.linkedin.com/in/skipstein> http://www.linkedin.com/in/skipstein <http://www.msc-inc.net/> Management Systems Consulting, Inc. * ERP B2B <http://www.erp-edi.net/> & EDI Integration * JD Edwards EDI <http://www.jde-edi.com/> Integration * Remote EDI Support <http://www.erp-edi.net/EDI-Remote-to-US.htm> Services * <http://www.msc-inc.net/EBFM.html> EBFM, <http://www.msc-inc.net/EDI_Information_Sources.htm> EDI, <http://www.msc-inc.net/HIPAA_Index.htm> HIPAA * <http://www.msc-inc.net/PROJECT.HTM> Project Management * <http://www.msc-inc.net/ETFM.htm> Electronic Transactions Processing Direct: 407-892-4069 Office: 800.856.3193 Fax: 888.243.1843 Cell: 407-683-6816 The information contained in this communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking any action in reliance of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. MSC is neither liable for the proper/complete transmission of the information contained in this communication nor for any delay in its receipt. -----Original Message----- 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, <http://www.OB10,com> 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 mo...@iomega. <mailto:moses%40iomega.com> com<mailto:mo...@iomega. <mailto:moses%40iomega.com> 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/
