5/10/13
> If you stay in the EDI field long enough you will see *plenty* of your
> clients'/employers' partners specify documents which are
> not standard-compliant.
For example, here's a post I made in EDI-L March 21 2002....
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Too good not to share.....
After reviewing a client's customer's implementation guide for an ANSI 856 ASN
document, I sent a letter to the client with a few questions I had about the
project. In one portion of the letter I referred to a sample segment provided by
the customer (customer name edited):
" [customer] shows the LIN segments in the "856 Ship Confirmation Example" thus:
"LIN*1000*VO*91284**DS**00050**CONSOLIDATED**00000**32340648**1592003A~
"This segment is not ANSI-compliant, as for each pair of LIN04/05,
06/07...14/15, if a item appears in the second element of the pair, the first
element of the pair (the qualifier) is required. We should confirm with
[customer], but in the absence of other information I would suggest
...[suggestions for qualifier values for the even-numbered elements]."
Well, the client DID confirm with his customer, and replied to me thus:
"Mike, just fyi [customer] said that they don't use the qualifiers and they have
vendors that don't populate the 856 with them. They didn't care if we use them
...."
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.. and the most recent example came earlier this week... client's partner
specifies ANSI 004010 '850' with MSG segment(s) at
header level outside an N9, SPI or LM loop.
MCM
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