Walter,
Two points to answer before you get rid of the van:
1. Do you or your partners want to play the part of the van? I
know I don't. Who is going to track and take responsibility for lost,
missing, or misunderstood documents?
2. Do you have the server, licensing, and expertise to be a van?
We had to buy communications product, a XML translation product,
expertise, and equipment to embark on such a venture. We haven't hried
another person to bring in expertise we didn't have so guess who is
trying to learn and provide servace on top of his existing duties. If
that is what you want to buy into, be my guest.
Dan Mehlhorn
System Programmer/EDI Administrator
Crescent Electric Supply Co.
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From: On Behalf Of w_cohen99
We are a mid-size company and use EDI through Easylink (VAN). We
have 75 trading partners of which some of them are EDI brokers and
some of them themselves use other VANs and we pay about $1k per
month for our low-volume communications costs (~3600kc). We [still]
use a dial-up modem while connecting to Easylink.
We want to get into the 21st century and get away from using the
modem so we are looking at other options (internet/web-based, ftp,
http, AS1, AS2, etc).
Ideally we'd like to try and eliminate the VAN communication costs
from the picture. What we've done so far is look at other VANs that
allow us to get off the modem and go through an internet protocol
(via web browser) for communicating.
My question is how do I go about researching other alternatives such
as using AS2? DO I need to poll all of my trading partners to see
if they can handle AS2? If some can handle AS2 and some can't then
what are my options? How can we [slowly] get off of teh EDI VAN?
Thaks for any assistance.
Walter
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