Well, as has been said before - see the thread! - there truly isn't much of a "best practices" that applies to EDI - for you would have to have "best practices" for each industry as they utilize EDI.
As I'd mentioned in another EDI-L thread, the way EDI is used in healthcare is different than the way it's used in retail and different than banking, higher-education, auto manufacturing and on and on and on... So what this means is that it may be a best practice in healthcare to do it one way, it's not going to be best practice to do it that way in retail trade... For example, I work for a retailer. In the retail world - we're the hub. We're the driving force behind the adoption and compliance of EDI with our vendors and suppliers. It is upon them - our vendor base and supplier community - to pay for their testing, for their trading, for their documents and all of their fees. We don't pay for ABC Inc. to test their system to meet our requirements - it's their job to pay for it. How does that work in healthcare? Don't know - not where I work. I don't think it matters at all what their source of EDI is - whether it's "in-house" or outsourced. When it comes to the set up and creation of the EDI solution on the vendor/supplier side - it's their costs - it's a cost of doing business. Just as I have to pay for My set-up and My side of the EDI trading relationship. It's kind of the old axiom that most retailers know: 1 - The customer is always right. 2 - When in doubt, see rule 1 above. In the retail world, I'm the customer for what products I'm buying from you - I'm the one that is always right and you need to do what I'm asking you to do - such as pay for your own compliance and testing and implementation of EDI - so that we can have a better and more advantageous business relationship. Craig Dunham EDI Coordinator Big 5 Sporting Goods. --- In [email protected], "dyna_den" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know where I can get information concerning Best Practices > when it comes to EDI. I am looking for information concerning who > should pay for what. Is it really the vendor who has to pay the > implementation cost because the customer has outsourced their EDI > ------------------------------------ ... 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/
