Re: Working with multiple languages from AS/400? -- MIDRANGE-L

You have your work cut out for you.
It may be that the requirement cannot be met.

The problem is that the state of art of language translation is not up to the 
speed of e-commerce.  You can run your text through something that will 
convert words from the human language equivalents to those in some other 
language, but the result will appear barely functionally literate if even 
that.  Then you give this to a human translater who is familiar with both 
languages to clean it up so it is business like, and you may also need 
someone familiar with the business & legalities of the contracts between the 
trading partners & make sure such requirements are also clearly communicated, 
and this has to be done across the spectrum of funds transfers, RMA, 
engineering drawings, engineering changes, changes in purchase orders, a huge 
gamut of business activities.

We do have some multi-national business, but as much as possible we have 
externalized the multi-lingual aspects.  For example, all funds transfers are 
through our bank.  The money arrives from the customers in whatever currency 
& immediately goes into our money management fund, then the e-paperwork 
arrives from the bank & we apply the e-money to our ERP receivables.

I do not know JDE & I assume you are on the JDE internet discussion groups & 
EDI discussion groups.  I am on BPCS which comes with a multi-lingual 
capability, but it is expensive.  Basically you designate the language of the 
various people who are your users, and all the reports & screens & help text 
& etc, is expressed in that person language.  There was recent discussion of 
this on BPCS_L in which some expressed the view that the quality was dismal, 
since Spanish for example was not Mexican South American version & French was 
not Quebec version.

So if you had this capability in JDE, you might have your accounting 
department sign on as an English user & do all the non-foreign invoicing & 
billing, then sign on as a Korean user & do the work that generates paperwork 
to be sent to Korean trading partners, then sign on as a Chinese user & you 
get the picture.

You need to setup your customer & vendor #s so it is easy to do range 
selection for the language the stuff needs to be done in.

> From: andyleisk@hotmail.com (Andy Leisk)
>  
>  I have a requirement to begin working with trading partners 
> in Asia who will 
>  be sending EDI documents in their language, Japanese, Chineese, Korean, 
>  etc., and I need to receive these and place them onto our AS/400 into a 
JDE 
>  - World enviroment.  Our system is in the United States and is currently 
an 
>  English only environment.
>  
>  Then when we have done something on the AS/400 we will need to send 
>  documents to the same trading partners again in their language, although 
we 
>  want to keep it in English on our system.
>  
>  Has anyone on this list ever tried to do something like this.  I am at the 
>  very early stages of research into this and am just looking for places to 
go 
>  where I can learn what must be done.  I would very much appreciate any 
>  guiadance that anyone can provide me.
>  
>  Thanks in advance

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)

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