| LinkedIN | Ongoing Conversations at LinkedIN
Our ec-bp.org LinkedIN group is gaining some traction. I believe there are some pertinent discussions in the making. In particular, one member raised a question about EDI Content Validation. The initial comments are below, but I encourage you to join in the discussion, and add your own thoughts.
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| Marlow's Issues | Direct to Consumer Orders
There is a growing interest among Retailers for sending orders to suppliers, to be shipped directly from the supplier to the retailer's customer. While this is a great concept, many retailers have designed their EDI program without considering what their suppliers can actually support. What I mean by that is that, I've encountered Retailers that create a Master 850 that contains more than one of their customers' orders at the Item level. What this means in EDI, is they are sending the Ship To a...
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| Cecil's Dressing | Non – Standard EDI data = Failure to Communicate
I love small, local restaurants (in case you didn't already know that). They are typically pragmatic in creating their menus. One of my favorite local diners has possibly the world's greatest chili. They make it somewhere out behind the building, in a secret cauldron. But they admit that they either don't have the skill, or desire to develop their own salad dressings. So they serve Newman's Own dressings, for all the right reasons.
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