If it's not broken, why are you trying to fix it?

Any commercial software will take you 6 months to learn and implement, and will 
cost 100% of the acquisition cost for implementation.  Is this a cost that your 
company wants to take on?

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From: karnaf62 <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sun, March 27, 2011 6:43:30 PM
Subject: [EDI-L] What should I do with our vast EDI system?

We have an in-house EDI server, EDI software, 100s of trading partners, 15 
different EDI transactions, X12 and XML, various custom-files exchanged using 
EDI between several in-house systems and much more. 


Since we are a "Vendor" and our Trading Partners are "The Customer", according 
to EDI de-facto rules, we have a custom map for each TP/Transaction.

This vast system is a product of my hard work for over 15 years at my company .

Everything is working very well, self supported, no issues.


But(!), nothing will stay the same for ever... including myself (I  moving to a 
new role in the company) and our aging EDI system that will have to be replaced 
by new software (i.e. throw away all the current maps and setups and write them 
from scratch).

We are not opposed to outsourcing, especially with EDI which, in general, 
requires a one-time setup for each interchange and not much of maintenance 
after 
that.

But, because we are so dependent on EDI with our customers (EDI brings more 
than 
90% of our sales) we want costs to be down, and fast response to changes and 
new 
setups. 


What would you recommend?



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