Quoted text is from <2FCA34E521564979972ED07F79434731@desktop1>, by Michael Mattias/LS <[email protected]>
>I cannot sign up for this. > >The reason you end up with all kinds of hard-coded exceptions and >winding >roads and twisting turns is because the system was not designed to >support >"today's buiness conditions." I think I may have a more catholic interpretation of 'business process' than you do. X sends the same transaction to 100 partners and has 18 different maps to do it. This means his EDI processing is complex, but no change of EDI system will remove that particular complexity, since it is dictated by his business requirements. Y is a hub, and can dictate the mapping. Despite this with thousands of trading partners he finds it necessary to send the same document according to four different EDI standards using five different networks. Once again it is the business need which introduces the complexity. Z has grown large by acquisition. He receives transactions from many different sources (and with consequent variety of mapping flavours), but additionally has to route the translated information in each case to two different applications. One is 'accounts', but unfortunately the other is one of a choice of three, depending on whether the ordered produce is chilled, frozen, or fresh. The EDI system has a heck of a job to split, identify, map, and route appropriately; often based on heuristic examination of the transactions. Now you can fairly argue that Z needs to rationalise his business processing, but it is that processing which dictates the complexity of the EDI system. Regards Chris -- Chris Johnson mobile:+44 (0)7785 302122 Fax: +44 (0)870 0519 818 EDI website http://www.edimatrix.co.uk EDIMatrix Ltd work: 0845 126 0680 or +44 20 8778 1402 Registered in UK no. 2777624 Reg.Office: 34 Sydenham Rd, London SE26 5QF ------------------------------------ ... 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/
