Actually part 2 of your response is accurate. They have hundreds of
suppliers using this very same download button, and who knows doing what
with it next??
Any change they make on their side would be extremely RISKY on their
part. We would not be happy if not previously notified of a change, yet
we would deal with it with a good business sense.
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BS. You'd really tell John Deere to go flipping buy their materials
elsewhere if they change the format of that XLS file?
I suppose the "heads may roll" might pertain to the pi$$ing contest
initiated as to whose fault it was that the production line shutdown
because of lack of parts. Trust me, since they are the customer, they
are right and you'd be wrong. They'd never let you know that they fired
the internal person.
Rob Berendt
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PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com
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RE: Getting data into a PF from an Excel spreadsheet
We work closely with John Deere. They have a WEB site with all the open
orders they have placed with hundreds of their suppliers like us. They
have a download button which creates a .XLS, which we then convert to a
.prn, and upload directly into System i5 database. If they changed
their .XLS format even one little bit, heads may roll.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 1:01 PM
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Subject: RE: Getting data into a PF from an Excel spreadsheet
Greetings:
The only absolutely predictable thing about *.XLS files supplied by
users (or vendors or customers) is that once you have come to a firm and
binding agreement that nothing about the format will change, the format
will prove to be randomly variable. In fact the probability, for any
given instance of a file, that it will be generated by somebody other
than the normal sender (e.g. a temp working in Lotus 1-2-3 R5), is
directly proportional to the cube of the number of persons being away
from the office, who would know how to deal with a format change.
Darrell
Darrell A. Martin - 630-754-2141
Manager, Computer Operations
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