John, it's been a while since I did a similar project. The 3PL company I setup handled the EDI for their customers. We used one ISA/GS sender/receiver id that belonged to the 3PL, and the billing was all handled through them as well. That way we didn't have to setup for every customer. We put a plan number in the L11 segment in the 204 and required that this plan number be returned to us in the 214 status message as well as the 210 so we could cross reference it to the customer order/contract number. If you are doing the whole management process including the billing, etc, then this could work for you as well.
Dave Records Records Consulting, LLC Phone: 616.583.0090 Email: [email protected] On Aug 30, 2010, at 4:15 PM, John Nadvornik wrote: > I'm working with a company that is trying to find the simplest way to > on-board a > fair amount of carriers via EDI. > > The problem we are running into is that for a given carrier the 3PL uses, > there > are multiple customers the 3PL manages (shipper) "one to many relationship". > We > are currently setting up a unique pair between the > carrier/3PL-Shipper(Customer) > combination. That means the carrier will have multiple ISA Sender/Receiver > IDs > for this 3PL based on the number of customers (shippers) the 3PL uses that > carrier for. > > I'm not looking to steal any secret sauce, but I'm wondering if anyone has a > more elegant solution they may have used. > > Thanks, > John > > [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: [email protected] [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/
