Thanks Art... Another late thought for you all - I'm a retailer and buying from our vendors. And Art, you're probably right. I was just looking at a simple equation and drawing on the (many years past) 6th grade math class. And you're right - I need to send the total cost (after allowances and charges) and not the total of the allowances... My bad.. Mea Culpa. Mea Culpa.
And thanks, also, about the accounting guy being out of his leage... Now Art - you've worked with a LOT of companies doing your consulting... How do they prefer to get the dollar amount of the PO - by doing the math themselves or by getting a pre-calculated figure? BTW, I also send all the numbers need to do that calculation in the PO - in the PO1 loop. The map kind of looks like this: PO1*1*1000*EA*10*****UP*(UPC number)*SK*(SKU number)*LT*(case/pack)*GE*Generic Description ... (also Vendor Style & size information) CTP*24.99 (our retail price) SAC*A*(code)****3*0.10********Seasonal/Holiday Allowance P000000010000 MSG*Ticket ID (for ticketing program) MSG*Class # (for price sticker) That's pretty much it. Then the PO1 loop can repeat for each additional item being ordered. I give them all of the figures - for each item being ordered - in the data segments - Quantity, cost and allowance amounts. And we ARE the paying customer. It's the vendor that's saying that they can't do the math... *sigh. Craig E. Dunham EDI Coordinator EYE Analyst From: Art Douglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 9:16 AM To: Dunham Craig E.; [email protected] Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Revision to the PO Map (850). Craig, If I was a customer, I would like your way of figuring. Perhaps your company would be in better shape if you calculated it this way: C * (1.0 - A) * Q = Net Cost. That way, you get the 90% instead of the 10%. Total quantity ordered is irrelevant (in terms of calculating allowance) unless every line item has the same cost and allowance. Fuggitaboutit. Calculate the gross and allowance for each line, then sum them up. Your accountant is out of his league. You are right (of course), that your invoice needs to carry the line item cost, the line item discount expressed as a percent as well as the dollar amount, and the net. Your total invoice should state the total gross, total allowance, and total net. Of course, it is the paying customer who has the final say, not your bean counter. Art Douglas Lead Consultant<http://www.linkedin.com/in/ediproartdouglas> Blackwater Network (877) 464-8915 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dunham Craig E. Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 8:58 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: [EDI-L] Revision to the PO Map (850). OK, I'm seeking advice from the group... My accounting department (ok, one guy) is saying that our vendor community can't seem to get the concept of figuring out allowances for invoices. Here's an example - Cost - $10.00 Allowance - 10% Quantity - 1000 Just using that simple concept - it's basic math - not far and above the 6th grade... You'd set it up like this: (C*A)*Q=Net Cost Right? I mean, am I over simplifying this...? To all of you on the "vendor/supplier/manufacturer" side of the coin - are your systems so ... stupid ... that they can't do a simple calculation such as this? But, I digress - as usual. Instead of putting the onus of the math on the vendor side, this genius in accounting wants us to transmit a total dollar value of the invoice (with allowances applied) and a total number of units being ordered. His thought process is that the vendor (i.e. you) would be able to balance the incoming dollar amount of the PO against your sales order and also against the invoice(s) generated by the sales order. So, I know that I can use the AMT segment for the total dollar value of the PO. That's kind of a given. But I can't seem to find a segment to use to populate the total quantity being ordered. I was thinking of using the "hash total" in the CTT segment, but that's having the translation process add up those numbers. Our programmers have captured the total value and quantity during the PO creation/printing process and populate some data fields that I can then map from - a fixed number, calculated by the program - and populate the 850 map to be sent. So, the question is - where do I put the data...? Your suggestions? Where do you see the data (if you receive a PO) or where do you put it (when you send a PO)....? Craig E. Dunham EDI Coordinator EYE Analyst [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [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! 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