I've had that happen once in 15 years or so. A freight company got stuck in a loop and attempted to send 14,000 210's before I caught it and pulled their plug. I was the customer then, I put them back on paper but that's not an option for a vendor.
We regularly get files with up to 2,000 PO's in it so I would never limit to 500 personally. We do compare the customer, PO#, shipto and markfor on every order inside a PO to orders previously loaded in our system back to a year and will park anything we think is a dupe in a folder for manual intervention and send an email notice to the EDI and wholesale teams. My scheme would have only stopped the first year of your batch but with the removal of the restriction to 1 year it would have stopped all of it. On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Steven Santillo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We have a few hunderd EDI partners and receive a few thousand EDI files a > day. Our application is SAP. > > The issue: > one of our partners had a problem and passed us an 850 file with 22600 > PO's. All their PO's from the last 3 years. > Gentran Server Unix translated the file which took well over an hour and > passed it to SAP. This file sucked the life out of SAP and it took about 12 > hours to stablaize SAP. > > To me this was an extremely rare event but now managment wants EDI to check > all files and not pass anyhting over to SAP if the file has more than 500 > PO's. > > This is a knee jerk reaction. I don't feel the need to either check the > count of BEG segments or EDI_DC segments and suspend files. > > Has this type of thing happened to anyone else? My thinking is that if we > must add this check then SAP should not only check files size but PO dates. > (dupe check didn't work because these POs from 2008-2010 were on another > system and not brought over to SAP.) > > Any thoughts? > > > [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/
