Travis, Thanks, if we got to design everything, it would certainly be easier (and, I think, more reasonable, as we're used to thinking systemically, IMHO).
You've got it easier than most. Be thankful. 99% of the problems I've seen come from the application and 99.9999999% of the time, the application people will refuse to admit it until bludgeoned over the head with facts and data and examples. In even bigger organizations, there's even more levels of business, application, support, development, testing, and, heaven forfend, management, and everybody's got ten fingers and they all point them at EDI! As for not having the data to map from, just let me know next time and I'll lend you my flying monkey ;) Leah ________________________________ From: Travis Truax <[email protected]> To: edi list <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2011 1:57 PM Subject: Re: [EDI-L] 856 design theory documents/web sites/books?? I like your comment, Leah: >>EDI does not drive the content (what you're calling design) of the ASN, >>business does. Although, once in a while we do get to be backseat drivers! But in small operations such as ours, there's no "application people" to talk with... it's just a few Jacks, or a single one in some cases. The logical distinctions still exist, but in practice they matter very little to us. We're responsible for the design of the process, as well as everything else. (Except for the actual execution of the process, at least!) 95% of our EDI problems come from gaps in the application side. Mapping data is pretty easy when there's actually something to map it to & from. Just connecting dots and converting a few dots to stars. Travis- [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! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
