I can't believe it's been almost a WHOLE MONTH since I last posted a blog and My thoughts... geez. But, anyway, I was reading - gee, shocker! - another website (actually, My daily mailing of questions posed on the EDI-L group over on Yahoo!) - and the following question was posed:
"I'm working through a client situation where multiple internal SKUs correspond to a single customer item number. Before I get on my high horse and insist that they always ship a complete customer item in a single shipment I thought that I'd ask if it is possible to send a valid ASN or Invoice in this case.
To be specific:
Client offers internal item numbers P0001a, P0001b and P0001c for sale as A0001. It is murphy inevitable that the shipping department will eventually ship P0001a, P0001b and P0001c in separate shipments (on separate days). Is it even possible to:
send an ASN that 1/3 of unit A0001 shipped on June 16, 2008
or
send an Invoice that 1/2 of the cost of unit A0001 is now due for that 1/3 A0001"
Now, here's the thing to consider - how was it ordered...? If the trading partner sent a PO for 100 of P0001a, 100 of P0001b and 100 of P0001c, then you need to ship 100 of each item. If the ...