I've heard of all of those more formal titles, but all too often I just answer
to the title 'WMFEO':
"Where's My Friggin' EDI Orders"
On a more serious note, simply changing your 'title' doesn't or won't do any
good if you haven't clearly define what it is you do, the value of what you do
AND that value is understood by management. All too often, management and the
affected departments & business units see EDI as a black hole or necessary evil
('we put it in because we need it to do business with some of our customers')
without understanding the role of the EDI system and more importantly, the
impact of how this single system affects (almost) all the other areas of the
business, especially your supply chain. You get all the blame when something
breaks, but nothing is heard when you have an error free weekend.
It's one thing to have management call you their EDI guy and quite another when
you start identifying what you do as 'manage 70% of all order volume, 85% of
all
invoicing and 100% of all shipping notices for an $80mm business' AND then have
some data (financial and otherwise) to back the up that statement.
A good starting article on this is
http://www.amosoft.com/articles/Should-I-Invest-in-EDI.html, which goes into
EDI
ROI (Wikipedia has a similar section in the Electronic Data Interchange
article. Based on the quote from the first article 'Research shows that it
costs an average of $0.30 to manually process a customer order, whereas
implementing an EDI order entry program would reduce that cost to $0.10 per
customer order.', if your system processed 20,000 orders last year, the manual
cost would be $6,000 where the EDI cost to process the same set of orders is
$2,000, creating a savings of $4,000. My system processed about 3 x's that
last year so employer savings would be $12,000. Similar results can be
found and documented for the Invoicing side.
You need to clearly define and document what your value is to determine what
your worth is. And a good addendum is to research compensation but be advised
there are often a number of factors that play into that, most of which may not
be readily visibile to you, the end employee.
Another point in compensation are those benefits that may not be so black and
white. I was able to successfully negotiate working from home on Fridays at
the
end of last year, since I had already been given Friday afternoon's off to
offset my requirement to provide after hours and weekend support. Some may say
so what, so you can now just sit around and work in sweats & T-shirt all day
instead of just half. But the benefit to me is VERY real. My daily gas cost
is
around $15 for the round trip to work and back (and probably going to go up
even
more with increasing gas prices now and in the future). So by saving myself
having to drive in one day a week, I now have given myself a very real
$780/year
pay raise. Also when I got the work from home on Friday's approved, my company
also provides me a monthly expense check to offset my (increased) internet use
cost from working at home so my actual yearly savings is even more, and thus an
even great, indirect pay raise.
Just be careful about how you approach this with management. You don't want to
be seen as a gripey (or worse) employee and right now anyway, it is an
employers
job market, not the other way around.
Ken
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From: Ashlie Jeter <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wed, February 9, 2011 4:08:53 PM
Subject: Re: [EDI-L] <MISC> EDI-related job titles
EDI Analyst
EDI Specialist
EDI Programmer/Analyst
B2B Analyst
Integration Analyst
There are many many more but I like Leah's favorite title....hehehehehehe
----- Original Message -----
From: Leah Halpin
To: Benjamin ; [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [EDI-L] <MISC> EDI-related job titles
I've always preferred EDI Goddess. Actually, my favorite was "EDI Technical
Manager" which meant I got to do all the fun techie stuff and the "EDI Division
Manager" got to deal with all the personnel "issues".
Really, this is going to be company specific, unless you think you can get your
company to make up a new title for you.
Check out your own company's hierarchy of titles and descriptions and then fit
yourself in.
I will probably get some flack for this, as division of duties is greatly
dependent on industry and size of your company, but server administration
(especially hardware) is not generally an EDI responsibility. So you could
argue for 80% of a Network/Server administrator's pay on top of what you're
making.
Leah
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From: Benjamin <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wed, February 9, 2011 3:23:27 PM
Subject: [EDI-L] <MISC> EDI-related job titles
As the season of annual reviews is just around the corner, I was wondering if
anyone knows of a good resource that would list EDI-related job titles and
their
descriptions. Obviously, I know what my job title is and I know what my job
duties are, but I'm not 100% sure that my job title is appropriate for all the
duties I am responsible for.
My thought (crazy hope) is that if I can argue that my job duties warrant a
more
accurate [higher] job description, I might be able to argue a better pay rate,
too :-) My current job title is "EDI Coordinator" and I work in an EDI
department of one (albeit not without some help), in a medium-sized retail
company. I handle just about all aspects of the EDI process for my company,
including any map changes, development projects, trading partner testing, and
data issue troubleshooting/resolution. I am about 80% responsible for all
server administration over our hardware.
I have heard the following job titles used to describe colleagues working in
this industry, but I'm not sure what the hierarchy is: analyst, coordinator,
manager, specialist, administrator. I'm guessing there are also others. I've
always felt that a "manager" manages "people" and not "things", so I wouldn't
consider myself an "EDI Manager". I also wouldn't feel that I'm an "EDI
Administrator" until I am 100% responsible for every EDI aspect in my company.
Of the remaining (and also unknown) job titles, I'm not sure which is "more
advanced" than the others.
I have checked a few websites for job descriptions, but without being able to
find one that has all job titles listed, it is difficult to see how they rank
amongst one another. Is there an agency or site that would have such
information?
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