Bonjour Micheal,
First I will say that I'm personally against all those 800lb gorillas that
want to charge fees for doing EDI or E.C.(Electronic Commerce).
EDI/E.C. when properly used & integrated is a win win game for both parties.
Every company has to pay when enhancing their way of doing business
regardless if it's EDI, faxes, email...
EDI/E.C. is part of the way to do business today.
When people start to use the fax nobody was charging back Trading Partners
for the cost of the paper or long distance charges.
It should be the same for doing EDI/E.C. unless there is a very very
special situation.
If you start paying for one Partner, keep in mind that you are opening the
doors for other ones.
I think there is an expression in English for this; "opening a can of
worms"....
On the other hand do, I found more acceptable charging fair "handling fees"
to Partners that does not want to use EDI/E.C. to reduce transactional cost
for regular business transactions (POs, Invoices...).
This is my personal opinion,
Have a nice day,
Robert Richer
Coordonnateur Commerce Électronique
Electronic Commerce Coordinator
IPEX Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Pokraka [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 12:17 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Charging a customer for EDI ???????
>
> Hi folks,
>
> A new supplier wishes to charge us for doing biz by EDI.
> Now, the situ is a little unusual for me, as - to my knowledge - the 800lb
> Gorilla (us for a change) is not normally billed for the privilege.... or
> is
> it????
>
> A bit of background:
> The supplier is a well-known worldwide logistics company, providing
> warehouse and transport services.
> The supplier has been contracted with prerequisite to the whole thing
> being
> that they deal by EDI. Now that the deal is struck, supplier comes back
> and
> says that EDI is of no benefit to them, but merely a service that they
> provide as part of the package, thus they will charge their customer for
> it.
>
>
> My question: is this a 'standard' practice? Does that mean that we start
> charging our customers ? :-)
>
> TIA
> Michael Pokraka
> SAP EDI Analyst
> Samsung Semiconductor Europe Ltd
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