Well, guess what - I was reading (go figure!) a newsletter from another site - E-Commerce Best Practices (ec-bp) - and they had an article - that itself - was excerpted from the EDI ACADEMY - all about "EDI to FAX and FAX to EDI" types of communications. And it got Me to thinking. Yes, again.
One of the things that I've always had and dealt with in the past with My own EDI program for My employer.. First off, we have our own in-house solution for EDI. We use the Inovis TrustedLink i-Series program - and have for years - and pull directly from our merchandising system on our AS/400 - sorry - Series-i system. We populate back into that merchandising system (Island Pacific) and also our WM system from the inbound ASN documents. And with the new 810 Invoice that I'm working with our accounting department on, I'll populate from that document, too.
But, again, in the beginning, there was the expansion of our program - trying to net as many of our vendors and suppliers and getting them on-the-hook and in-the-basket for EDI document trading. Now, it should be said that of our 1700-plus vendor rolls, there are some duplications - in that this product line from Big Vendor A is set up differently ...