Re: Ownership won't agree to an upgrade

Read the inbound file, do if elseif on segments, write your tables.

If your doing a map it's just another version of a program.

I've been a gentran user for 25 years maybe (the libraries are Edi4xx?) Only one customer remains because he's small and he has only one customer and they require it.

If I had to pay 50k for a new license that's $100 an hour for 500 hours. I'd write it myself.

On Sep 14, 2017, at 9:02 AM, Bob Cagle <bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc.

Yes it is easy to write your own translator when every 810 is the same, but EDI standards are used differently by every organization that uses them, and if you have 10 trading partners, odds are you will be handling 10 different 810 documents. But invoices are fairly easy. >The ASN will be crazy because not only will different trading partners use different loops, they will use them in largely incompatible ways. That is where a mapper becomes invaluable. You can write a different map for each trading partner, and process all the documents >together in one shot. Your mileage may vary, but my experience comes from the standpoint of a contract warehouse where our clients defined the EDI standards, and there were no two documents defined the same way, even if it had the same document number. >Maybe some overlap in the 997's, but there were even multiple versions of that.

Agreed. Exactly the situation here - we are the flea on the tails of the big dog retailers. They wag and we just try to hold on.

Yes, I have a different set of documents for every trading partner and they are all different. Sometimes a little different, most times though they are very different.

Thanks

Bob Cagle
IT Manager
Lynk


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