Tony, I can't agree more, as I've always said, EDI standards are the most non-standard things I've ever seen.
Problem is I hadn't ever worked with drop shipments in EDI, and the trading partner we are trying to do this with has never done using EDI either, and I probably know more about EDI than they do, and I barely have scratched the surface of it, so as you said, we will need to bring to the table the ideas and come to an agreement. Seems that my thought patten for how to address the drop shipment in the transactions seems to be on target with the responses have been, so that's a good sign. But since I'm doing custom software that more depends on what the other side is sending, and what the other side needs, it's really difficult when the other side doesn't know what they need! Yes, we could just come up with a protocol that is good for us, but I really wanted to make sure what we come up with is workable for other partners without much tweeking. George Gallen Senior Programmer/Analyst Accounting/Data Division ggal...@wyanokegroup.com ph:856.848.9005 Ext 220 The Wyanoke Group http://www.wyanokegroup.com ________________________________________ From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno [3xk547...@sneakemail.com] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 6:47 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [mildly ot] - EDI and drop shipments It's been my experience that more time is spent on the phone, in emails, and in the conference room than in code when it comes to EDI. Getting the agreements documented up front saves huge amounts of coding and retrofitting on the back-end. So I encourage you to take the feedback you get here and bring it to your trading partners to see if it works for them - and ask them if they have ideas about how they have already done this or how they see it happening. That partnership toward a common goal (again, very people-oriented) will really help to make this technical initiative work for everyone. HTH T _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
