At Agere, we handled both rather interchangeably. You should be okay.
The stranger it is, the tougher it might be; but generic orders and changes shouldn't present a hassle.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Mehlhorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 11:24 AM
> To: EDI-L Listserv
> Subject: RE: [EDI-L] <TECH> Mapping EDIFACT to X12
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> I should know better. The documents are ORDERS and
> ORDCHG to 850 and 860
> respectively.
>
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Brandt
>
> > We got one of those "things" dropped on us. We don't trade
> > EDIFACT at all.
> >We got a demand to switch to EDIFACT for this TP in a month.
> Not knowing
> >EDIFACT, I'd like to know is it a reasonable and workable
> idea to have my
> >translator map the inbound EDIFACT to my existing X12 template?
> >
> > My translator can do this, therefore I don't need sales
> > calls. My question
> >deals with will EDIFACT data fit in the X12 template. Sort
> of like putting
> >Chevy parts in a Ford. It is workable, but not something
> you want to do
> for
> >the long run.
>
> You don't specify what messages/transaction sets you are
> dealing with, but
> in theory it can be done. I have several clients who map
> incoming X12 830s
> and EDIFACT DELFORs, and 862 and DELJITs, to one flat file layout, and
> generating 856s and DESADVs out of one flat file layout.
> --
> Tom Brandt
> Northtech Systems, Inc.
> 130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220
> Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1343
> http://www.northtech.com/
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