>Any dollar figure you name will be "cheap" to some and "prohibitively
>expensive" to others.
Amen, my sister.
With a couple hundred partners, AS/2 "per each" is inexpensive. But with only
one or two partners who want AS/2 , it's another
story.
When you have to consider the expense of "EDI-enabling" a customer who does not
buy all that much from you anyway, his insistence on
expensive communications may move him from the "Sure thing" to the "I'm sorry
your volume is insufficient to warrant us setting you
up for EDI" group and at that point he is referred to one of the "EDI services"
(eg GCommerce in Automotive, Opticom in Optical,
MedAssets (formerly Broadlane) for health care (supply chain transactions) who
specialize in handling "little guys," often by
providing a "web portal" and then reformatting "web orders" to X12 and
sending to the vendors.
I deal amost entirely with "sellers" who have between, say, twelve and fifty
discrete trading partners which, via the "EDI
services" mentioned above can put their total number of discrete CUSTOMERS
well over two hundred.. many of whom might never
otherwise enjoy the benefits of EDI (or in the 'services' case, simply "online
purchasing") given their low volume of purchases from
any one specific vendor.
Michael C. Mattias
Tal Systems Inc.
Racine WI
mmatt...@talsystems.com
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