Clever. Just another word for sneaky.
From: Samantha Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 7:48 AM To: Art Douglas Cc: Michael Mattias/LS; EDI-L Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Non-EDI control number in GIS/SI "Hey, what if you generated X12, then instead of sending it to them, re-mapped it to their flat-file format, harvesting the control number to emit into their proprietary format? Double the work, double the bragging-rights." Very clever idea! Thank you I like the "cereal" idea too....must resist... On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Art Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: If today was Friday I would recommend placing "Cheerios" in the sequence number - or "All-Bran". But it's only hump-day, so I won't. Without mentioning another tool set that can keep sequence numbers, could you use this to leverage the DNKY customer toward HTG EDI? Or perhaps they would consider using a 3rd party EDI service to transform their data for them. Hey, what if you generated X12, then instead of sending it to them, re-mapped it to their flat-file format, harvesting the control number to emit into their proprietary format? Double the work, double the bragging-rights. Art -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Samantha Scott Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 7:18 AM To: Michael Mattias/LS Cc: EDI-L Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Non-EDI control number in GIS/SI That is a fair comment and I am paying the price for trying to be helpful to our sales team. They don't care about the hidden costs of doing business, of course. Nothing short of a reflection on their personal bottom line (commission) will ever get them to care about that - in this or any other business. On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Michael Mattias/LS < [email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > > .... because I have to code and code and code in an > > inverse proportion to the sales potential of this dinky customer.... > > ...have no intention of ever agreeing to this again. > > Once is usually all it takes. > > Not on point (taken badly out of context).... > > > > Does anyone have a better idea? > > If you don't mind destroying your market value as a sales representative, > you could always train yourself to think BEFORE you say, "yes." > > MCM > > > [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 [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/
