Looking for ideas

["Paul Nelson" <p_nelson-br@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I had a meeting yesterday with a new client who wants to build an application 
for his vendors to use to interact with the purchasing department.

Many of them are overseas, and are low tech, so full blown EDI is not an 
option. The vendors do, however, have email and internet capability. Here's 
what he needs:

When a purchase order is created, or an existing one is updated, send an email 
to the vendor telling him to go to a specified URL and enter his pre-assigned 
ID and password, along with the P.O. number assigned to him. Display a "form" 
showing the details of the P.O. If he can ship the entire order, allow him to 
check a box at the top that automatically checks off each line item. If he 
cannot ship the complete order, check the ones he can ship. Allow him to 
indicate which lines will be back ordered, and to indicate the date on which 
he'll be able to ship. When the vendor clicks the submit button, initiate a 
program that picks up the vendor's responses and output a file that can then be 
sent back to the acknowledgement system.

I'm looking for any and all suggestions that can run on the iSeries platform. 
The customer has 2 machines that are under-utilized, and he wants to put one of 
them to use. (He's trying to fight off the encroachment of ORACLE into his 
company).

Paul Nelson
Braxton-Reed, Inc.
630-327-8665 Cell
708-923-7354 Home
pnelson@braxton-reed.com
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