• Home
  • EDI Forums / Discussions
  • About EDITalk.com
  • EDI Talk’s Contributors
  • GIS 4.3 Documentation Search
Aug 8, 20084

It’s all for nothing if you don’t have freedom.

By Craig Dunham
Categories: Articles, EDI General, training
Tags: EDI • elements • freedom • rules • segments • standards

One of the things you may have noticed about Me when I blog, is that I tend to find a quote or a saying or a song lyric or a ... something ... that makes sense and drives My thinking.  The title of this blog comes from the 1995 film by (and starring) Mel Gibson called "BRAVEHEART".  For those that don't know, it's the story about fighting for freedom in Scotland in the ... 1500s?  One of the more "famous" quotes is when Mel Gibson yells out something about how they may kill them (the Scots) but they'll never take their freedom! Freedom, however, in something as strict and regimented as EDI may seem like a far fetched notion, but it's there.  Sure, we've got those lovely guides - those HUGE books - of standards and "rules" for the data we're sending - depending on the document - that tell us what we can send and how it should be formatted and all the rest.  Those standards tell us we should send this information in this loop in this segment in this element and it should be between 2 and 30 characters in length. But in that rigidity - in that structure - there's still some freedom.  Just look at the last sentence in the above paragraph - we're ...

Click here to read the rest of the article and make comments...


Forums / Discussions

Join us on the forums / discussions to talk things all EDI and Vendor Compliance! Click Here

Contribute to the Community

EDITalk.com is run by EDI guys for EDI guys. Want to write a article or blog post? Just let us know on the fourms and become a contributor today! All credits given to any article posted on the web site.

Recent Posts

  • IBM to buy AT&T’s Sterling unit for $1.4B
  • Breaking News: GXS and Inovis Sign Definitive Merger Agreement
  • Slow down, you move too fast…
  • The Times They Are A Changin’
  • Going Back In Time

RSS Recent Forum Posts

Categories

  • Articles (32)
  • EDI General (35)
  • EDI Jobs (2)
  • EDI News (20)
  • EDI Software (11)
  • GIS (2)
  • Industry News (9)
  • Other Blogs (25)
  • Site News (1)
  • training (11)

 

February 2012
S M T W T F S
« May    
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
26272829  

Recent Comments

  • Robert Herron on Breaking News: GXS and Inovis Sign Definitive Merger Agreement
  • edi software on Breaking News: GXS and Inovis Sign Definitive Merger Agreement
  • alan wilensky on IBM to buy AT&T’s Sterling unit for $1.4B
  • Robert Herron on Breaking News: GXS and Inovis Sign Definitive Merger Agreement
  • John Burmeister on Breaking News: GXS and Inovis Sign Definitive Merger Agreement

Archives

  • May 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • September 2009
  • May 2009
  • December 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008

Tags

810 850 ANSI as2 ASN catalog collaboration cost data Disney EDI EDI Basics elements freedom GIS hub Inovis Invoice order partner plan Planning PO Purchase Order Questions retail retailer Revision SAAS segments Simple simplify sps commerce standards supplier supply chain tools TPR TRADACOMS Trading Partner VAN vendor widget X12 XML

Copyright © 2008 EDI Talk – Vendor Compliance and Electronic Data Interchange & ClearInternet.com ® All Rights Reserved - Theme based on Massive Press by WPelements.com