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> Are you designing this as the 'sender' or the 'receiver' ?
>
> If you are the receiver, well, you know what you want in terms of
> application data
>
> If you are the sender, ask a few potential recipients what pieces of
> info they would like.
Well that's one of the stranger parts of this. I'm a sender, but the
receiver is using us a test case and they have no specs. It's not clear
to me that they even have a requirements definition for what their systems
need/want for material receipts.
We've been trying to architect our internal systems to support pretty
elaborate 856 reporting, with stuff like our containers and pallets having
SSCC-18 barcodes that we scan at pallet assembly, etc. However, this
is the first customer that has actually asked for 856s and we still have
some gaps in what we store in our internal systems if we needed to send
what I would think of as "full blown" 856s. We've got enough other stuff
on our plate that I'd rather not put the time into fleshing out our
systems if they won't even use the data.
> About all I could suggest is you stick to one of the 'common'
> hierarchies...
> S-O-I (no package detail eg you don't barcode ("license plate")
> cartons
This is kind of what I'm leaning toward proposing to them, but our
shipments can have items from several of their purchase orders so I'm
thinking of a "S-I" hierarchy with PO information under each of the items
in a PRF segment. Does that make any sense? Or am I misinterpreting
what the "O" level means?
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Thanks,
Joe Matuscak
Rohrer Corporation
717 Seville Road
Wadsworth, Ohio 44281
330-335-1541
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