>> 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?
That's pretty much what I said, and were up to me that's what I'd do if I
made any number of multi-PO customer shipments....
BUT... In Real Life.........
The reality is your customers often can't "think" about inbound shipments
or receipts without thinking the number one all-important sine qua non for
anything relating to those shipments and receipts is "Our PO number"... and
consquently they have problems processing.
I think someone here once suggested that if you are shipping to a
distribution center, that 'order level' becomes really significant if the
customer needs to sort by "ordering and ultimate destination location"...
which is (almost) absolutely going to be done by "our PO number."
Essentially providing an HL/order level loop is doing the customer's sorting
and control breaking for him... yes, he "could" do it but there's no need
to if you are doing it for him. Think of providing this sorting and control
breaking as a "no charge addtional service for our valued customers," then
market the snot out of it.
Seriously? Your customers will appreciate it, and your own 'customer
support requests for help understanding my last ASN' will be reduced.
Everybody wins. (or at worst breaks even!)
Michael C. Mattias
Tal Systems Inc.
Racine WI
[email protected]
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