>by SPS and a few other testing providers that seems to have
>caught the
>fancy of retailers and I still have not been able to figure
>out what the
>magic ingredient is that the retailers like so much.
These service providers are very attractive to some
retailers -- namely, they get to invent and enhance the
retailer's own non-standard systems, such as 22-digit item
codes in lieu of GTINs, for example. I'm sure their sales
people rattle on about how everything they do is "standard"
and their customers are none the wiser.
I have to imagine the business model includes an attractive
deal to the retailer on the proprietary catalog "Look how
much we can save over the cost of accessing GXS!" as well as
the lagniappe of having venders -- especially the small
potatoes people signing up for the web-access alternative.
But hey -- look at the bright side -- at least they are
providing an EDI alternative.
How do you like, say, printing a 3000 128 labels two up from
1500 pdf files on a laser printer created via a
web-access-only site? Been there, done that, bought the
T-Shirt.
Cheers,
Jim Guthrie
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