George, EDI is more people-oriented than technical. The X12 documents provide a structure, and trading partners can discuss the content used to populate those structures to achieve their business goals. There are few details about the 850, 856, 820, 997, 810, etc that can't be negotiated to accommodate specific business practices. Every discussion with a different partner will yield different results, though your inquiry here may give you more ideas to bring to the table, and can help to establish standards among partners. It's been my experience that more time is spent on the phone, in emails, and in the conference room than in code when it comes to EDI. Getting the agreements documented up front saves huge amounts of coding and retrofitting on the back-end.
So I encourage you to take the feedback you get here and bring it to your trading partners to see if it works for them - and ask them if they have ideas about how they have already done this or how they see it happening. That partnership toward a common goal (again, very people-oriented) will really help to make this technical initiative work for everyone. HTH T Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog Visit http://PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno NEW! http://groups.google.com/group/mvdbms/about > From:George Gallen > For those EDIers on the list. > > Do any of you process drop shipments using EDI for 850's? > What method do you use? _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
