Another question (or six) for you, Sandy. How clean is your master data? Are your customer and supplier setups consistent and correct? How about your item setups? Are the descriptions consistent and correct? Sizes right? Units of Measurement correct? Are your customers accustomed to using multiple codes for the same items?
Speaking of your customers (or vendors), are they sophisticated EDI users, or will you be working to get them up-to-speed with EDI? Are you up-to-speed on EDI yourself? Is your company management committed to moving into EDI, or are they just wondering if it is some magic pill that will make them profitable within a short time? (It's not unless they are.) One scenario, which happens a lot, is that a company will have a supplier or customer that pushed them to implement EDI. This "trading partner" will probably take the longest to implement, because you will have to solve every single problem at least once. After that, you may begin adding additional trading partners who have similar demands and capabilities. Over time, you will expand that kinds of information you will trade. Example: Your sales manager has just closed a deal with Big Box Jox, and tells your IT manager that she needs to implement EDI to satisfy receive the Purchase Orders. So you implement the X12 document 850 - Purchase Order, and also 856 - Ship Notice/Manifest (We call it ASN - Advance Ship Notice). Everything is fine until you get a new A/P manager who has worked with EDI before, and he wants to send out Invoices via EDI, so you add 810 - Invoice. Now your sales guy lands a deal with Kroger, which wants to use 875 - Grocery Products Purchase Order and 880 - Grocery Products Invoice. Your logistics manager signs with a new freight company, Mitco Ltd, and they want you to send them 204 - Motor Carrier Load Tender, and receive their 990 - Response to a Load Tender. And so on, and so on, and so on. So you see, it could take forever to fully implement EDI, if your employer keeps growing and changing. I wish you well, and be sure to bring your (specific) questions to us. We love to help. Also, there are several of us on the list that could provide consulting and contracting services should you need them. Good luck, Art Douglas Lead Consultant Blackwater Network (877) 464-8915 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dylan Hall Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 12:23 PM To: Sandy Markiewicz; [email protected] Subject: Re: [EDI-L] New EDI company going live Hello Sandy, Are you invoicing or being invoiced for this migration :) How big of a technology and skill set change will be involved? Is any of the old technology re-usable? Dylan btw - great photos! I think I might buy the 'Seagull at Dover Cliffs' On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Sandy Markiewicz < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Does anyone know how long it takes from changing a company from non EDI to > live EDI takes once the system is changed to reflect live EDI's? > > -- > Sandy Markiewicz > > Buy my Art at http://sandra.imagekind.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 ------------------------------------ ... 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/
