Like George, we also bypassed the VAN in favor of direct ftp transfers with our trading partners around 10 years ago. We're using flat, delimited files loosely defined to match the traditional EDI document specs - 850, 810, and 997 in our case. We've also run into the issue of having to tweak things for each individual partner, but have found that things eventually run smoothly once we've been in production for a while. Fortunately for us, we only have a handful of large customers and vendors so we're not constantly adding new partners into the mix.
-John -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Frailey Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 8:46 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] EDI Question... EDI brings up a whole can of worms for me in the new year. We currently use softshare as our van, I would really like to do EDI in house or find something more affordable. Does anyone have any suggestions. Thank You Robert Frailey Manager Information Systems Utah Medical Products Inc. Utah Medical Products Ltd. Femcare-Nikomed Ltd. Femcare Australia rfrai...@utahmed.com 801-569-4016 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter S. Goldberger" <pet...@eoftech.com> To: "U2 Users List" <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [U2] EDI Question... > ISA (IEA) and GS (GE) control numbers should be consecutive per trading > partner. The Receiver COMM ID and the control number together are what the > VAN looks at. > > > George Gallen wrote: >> The control numbers for the ISA/GS/ST segments, do they need to be unique >> only on a trading partner scale, or on a VAN scale? >> >> So if two trading partners are going through the same VAN, can they both >> have say a ISA control # of 00001? >> >> George Gallen >> Senior Programmer/Analyst >> Accounting/Data Division, EDI Administrator >> ggal...@wyanokegroup.com >> ph:856.848.9005 Ext 220 >> The Wyanoke Group >> http://www.wyanokegroup.com<http://www.wyanokegroup.com/> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> U2-Users mailing list >> U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org >> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
