I just cannot resist chiming in on this one... We have a 'partner' that we trade EDI-850 PO's, EDI-856 ASN's and EDI-867's (sell through/Inventory). For the EDI-850's and EDI-856's we each pay our part. However, for the Sell-through/inventory reporting they feel that this is a benefit to us to the point that they want us to pay for all of it. O.k. fine, I can handle that part to a certain degree. However, rather than have us write them a check periodically, they are requiring that we get a mailbox on their VAN to ensure we pay the costs directly (which differ's from our VAN) to the tune of a 300 start-up and a minimum monthly fee of 110.00. The ridiculous part is that we recently changed VAN and have been receiving this document from them for the cost of the KC's for years but when the VAN change was announced, they 'discovered' we were slipping through the cracks and now needed to establish the mailbox on their VAN. As you probably know, this involves contracts, legal, administration etc... Here's the kicker. The total cost for the monthly transactions amount to 10/month each !!!
We are no longer receiving this documents from this partner and our business must log into their extranet and retrieve them. I would have hoped they would have waived this requirement. Automation should be about making both partners more profitable by streamlining the channel and the cost of doing business. Not in this case... Steve Moses Systems Analyst Iomega Corporation (303) 681-2593 [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ediaas Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 6:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EDI-L] Re: Best Business Practices Hello, I had to explain this "Who should pay what?" a couple times, with various successes ;-) I use to say that you should use "common sense". When you automate a document exchange via EDI, both parties need to do some job in order to get it work, and everyone should cover his part. In addition to that, encoding documents or producing documents to help a business is not something any parties should directly invoice the other for. I am sure that people at my vendors place are drinking coffee, have lunch in a kitchen that needs to be cleaned, etc. all that in order to supply me with their products. Of course, these costs are included into price I pay for their products, but, NO, I do not expect to be explicitly invoiced for these facilities used. /Patrice --- In [email protected]<mailto:EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com>, "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 > [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/
