Hello Rich: All of us have been newbies. All of us are quick to help. I have never been snubbed by an EDI person when I showed an eagerness to learn EDI.
Now many of use are well seasoned in both EDI and the entire business process. Your question is honorable, but remember EDI reflects all the paper processes that exist in business. Not just one business but all businesses. A PO document is ubiquitous in most business yet there is no mandate that all paper PO's must have the date in the top right hand corner and the PO number in the top left. That is a reason why EDI specifications are so fluid. EDI is the smelting pot for all business transactions, which encompasses all business verticals. Come work with EDI, ask questions. Yes most often the people with gray hair are the ones with experience, we have earned it. So often because something is computerized people think that when you buy a copy of Corel Draw it makes you an artist. This is not true anymore than buying a copy of Word will make you a poet. All things worth learning take either great time, great effort or both. I know no one in their right mind would allow me to paint the Sistine chapel just because I had some paint, a ladder and was in Italy. Scott Scott E. Phillips Pinnacle Data Technologies, Inc. Office: 678-792-7792 Cell: 770-861-7850 Fax: 503-907-9780 This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. On 3/12/11 10:42 AM, Rich Silva wrote: > > A couple of (embarrassing) Newbie questions… > > When I started “doing EDI” I Google’d up a bunch of information; specs, > transaction sets… Then I wasn’t so good at recording favorites to recall > when I’d actually found something (relying then on just searching it up > again?). > > One set of “specs” I Google’d up (but no longer have an idea of where I got > them) was something called “Rapid, Inc Guidelines”. In particular I > downloaded docs for Warehouse Shiiping Tranaction sets (94x) and for > Invoices (810). The docs were based on version 4010 and dated 1998. I found > these specs much more useful than the “raw” specs I was seeing from various > vendors or the warehouse… They actually gave business use cases; the example > docs were annotated… Really very useful if you are “dropping into a bunch of > docs you’ve never seen before”… > > Today I was looking through one of them to scope out a couple of docs that I > will need to be able to talk about with a client… I thought I’d search them > up again, hoping for updates to 5010, corrected examples… I cant find them… > > Does anyone know who “originated” these docs? Has anyone updated copies? I > know a really odd request, but I see “old copies” of these docs strewn “all > over” the web… Almost as if these are some “core EDI Documents”… > > Anyone have a clue? > > Next newbie question… > > Where does one go to get the “raw” ANSI X-12 (or other) standards… I also > tried to Google up this one, but the first few pages of search results are > all service providers… > > I’ll be continuing my search, but I thought it might save me time to throw > the question out into this group… > > Rich > > Description: Wizard Clip Art SigRichard Silva > > Silva Software Services – United States > > Phone: (310) 387-8364 > > Email: <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:RichSilv%40Pacbell.net>> > [email protected] <mailto:RichSilv%40Pacbell.net> > > ü Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > [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/
