That, Jim, is a whole different ball of wax..... in that regard, you're not talking about "typical" retail, but more like mail order fulfillment. And yes, I'm sure that the data can be sent in the 850 PO. But that's really more of an exception to the rule, rather than the rule. And I think that may fall outside of our original poster's concepts. That data is being sent by Amazon (or whomever) to drop ship an item to a specific customer. It's not a request (demand?) from the supplier to their distributor for customer data. Instead, it's more about fulfilling an order placed by a customer on a website.
If you've got an established business relationship with a supplier (or a customer/distributor/retailer) for EDI, adding an additional drop ship PO is no big deal - as long as the trading partner is set up to process the data AND the order. If not, then, yes, the "one & two" types of orders may not be an efficient way of doing business, but it's still a sale and a way to make your customer happy. And again, wholly different from our poster's original question. Craig Dunham -----Original Message----- From: Jim Guthrie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 6:39 PM To: socal_ediguy Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Re: End customer info Craig write: >DTC...? I didn't find any DTC segment in the 850... At >least in the 4010 version of the spec. Are you referring >to cross dock references - breaking up >an order for a >number of locations within a company...? Sorry -- DTC= Direct to Consumer (and sometimes Dropship to Consumer), not a segment. Some of the larger retailers dotcom divisions are attempting to move to this model, and it may well be the wave of the future. The particular customer using the 850 I'm familiar with is is a mail-order marketer. But doesn’t Amazon also have EDI for this type of Direct-to-Consumer shipping? The Consumer address is sent in an N1ST-N2-N3-N4 loop. Delivery Phone and contact for UPS or small parcel carrier is in a PER segment, and there's a REF CO qualifier which gives us the Customer's Order Number (the dealer's PO number is different). There's some addition FOB segment detail too. Doing EDI for onesies and twosies is not really an efficient way for us to do business, so we've strongly resisted going this route. But it is definitely out there. Jim Guthrie ------------------------------------ ... 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/
