Walter,
We have heard time and time again from customers looking to decrease their VAN costs through the implementation of things like AS2 and FTP managed internally by organizations such as yours. Trouble is, as Daniel pointed out, that this leaves the management of the communications platforms to your organization which in turn can add new costs into the equation. Furthermore as David commented, VANs do play the "middle man" role when the finger pointing starts. Commport has been called upon many times to be the neutral control point since we log and archive at each step in the communication process. Commport Communications has been providing VAN and translation services for more than 15 years. Our service and pricing has been proven to reduce EDI costs by as much as 40%. Commport also operates FTP and AS2 servers to the benefit of our clients. This allows customers to create a single pipeline between their organization and Commport while the rest of the communications are handled by Commport with no additional costs associated with the receiver's protocol of choice. Meaning that if you are trading with customers like Wal-mart or Hannaford/Food Lion who mandate AS2 as well as other customers who remain tied to a traditional VAN, Commport can and will perform the connections on your behalf at one low price. I would like to speak to you further about how Commport can decrease your costs while improving the service you are receiving. Please give me a call to discuss. Thank you Glen Haywood General Manager, Sales Commport Communications Int'l, inc. (905) 727-6782 ext.2206 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.commport.com _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of w_cohen99 Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [EDI-L] Reducing/eliminating our EDI VAN 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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
