Well Samantha, I would first offer a personal disclaimer.... I serve as a consultant to US Customs and Border Protection. Therefore, my comments to this thread must not be construed as an official statement in any way.
Customs requires the submission of electronic information detailing the movement of commodities and persons moving across the US border. As such I can state, quite proudly, that CBP works closely with the entirely of our trade community in a collaborative manner. Strict attention to the EDI standards as published is tantamount. Certainly, as data collection mandates are adopted through any number of federally mandated regulations, these changes are coordinated and adopted in a collaborative manner with our impact trade partner community, both within the DISA X.12 standards maintenance process and within the UN/EDIFACT (WCO) international standards community. From my vantage point, we have a very good relationship with our trade community. I believe we do a very, very good job (insert pride again here) with respect to mitigating impacts to our trade partner community. Finally, I will forever recall a post on this web-board a couple years ago, where it was suggested by another respondent, that programming and sending EDI to Customs was rather simple. The quote, as I recall, was, "with US Customs EDI reporting, it's build it and then it's lights out". Yeah. I took a great deal of pride in that post. Both then, and now. 800 pound gorilla? Not at all. Kind Regards to All, Bud Blankenship -Consultant US Customs and Border Protection EDI ________________________________ From: Samantha Scott <[email protected]> To: Bud Blankenship <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected] list" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2012 7:07 PM Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Deviating from X12 Standards Agreed. I enforce standards with vendors but with customers I've learned that its a waste of time trying to insist. Out of curiosity...is US customs an 800 lb gorilla that enforces standards or the a rule breaker like some of my friends who do HIPAA EDI describe the US gov in their world? On Mar 4, 2012, at 6:27 PM, Bud Blankenship wrote: >Unless you happen to be THE 800 pound gorilla, one off's will reign. > >Bud Blankenship >US Customs EDI > >-----Original message----- >From: Dave Records <[email protected]> >To: Klaus-Dieter Naujok <[email protected]> >Cc: "[email protected] list" <[email protected]> >Sent: Sun, Mar 4, 2012 21:51:32 GMT+00:00 >Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Deviating from X12 Standards > >I disagree with the profit motive! It's because the customer has a way of >doing it, and standards are flexible! Yes, we are trading partners, but >what happened to taking care of your customer? It happens in every business >from me dealing one on one with a retailer whose product I am dissatisfied >with to large manufacturers who don't want to have to deal with every nuance >for every supplier. Not every ones needs are the same and if it's a simple >modification, why not? It's not affecting my profit at all, I meet the >needs of my customer who meets the needs of their customer. > >Dave Records >Records Consulting, LLC >Email: [email protected] > >On Mar 4, 2012, at 4:33 PM, Klaus-Dieter Naujok wrote: > >On Mar 4, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Dave Records wrote: > >> Standards (rules) are made to be broken, right?! And in the world I've >worked in, automotive and banks, you do what the customer wants whether it >follows standards or not! > >It is exactly this attitude why we have such a hard time to achieve >interoperability. In the end it is all about money, not compliance, just do >what ever it takes to keep the profit high :-( > >Klaus > >[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 > >[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/
