I have received a couple responses from people indicating that this concept can work, here are my thoughts to address the questions you raised, I'm interested to hear what other potential issues there may be: (see edited original message below)
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I have never heard of that and if you want my opinion that sounds like it would
not work. if they (your tp's) send you an acknowledgment to a purchase order
they have yet to receive
what do they do if the purchase order they receive and have already acknowledged is wrong?
>they (the vendor) would not receive a purchase order, the info from the 855 would simply be used to enter the necessary info into our MRP.
How does the tp know the purchase order number they are to acknowledge without having the purchase order?
>I don't think the tp needs to know the purchase order since the order was entered through their web site. I haven't fully thought this through so if it is determined that a PO number is needed to be known prior to creating the 855, one solution may be to have the vendor generate a PO number within agreed upon guidelines.
What would happen if there are price changes?
>presumably this price is accurate since it was ordered on-line, but if the price does change, then this would be handled just as any other change request, the only caveate would be that the purchasing organization would need to have the 850 info (from the 855) in the system prior to the 860 being issued.
There is a lot of information from the 850
that the 855 uses, I would be curious to know how this process would work. I
personally would not suggest any one trading in this manor.
just my $.2
Anthony Whitehead
technology Enablement
Andersen Consulting
