RE: Credits on invoices received

> Earl's posting that "Typically, the BIG_07 is CR (CreditMemo) or DI (Debit
> Invoice), DR (Debit), IV (Invoice). Element 640 has many possibilities ;-)"
was
> interesting considering the retail guidelines only specify the following for
the
> invoice transaction types: BB Billback, BH Bill and Hold Goods, CA Cash, CI
> Consolidated Invoice, FI First Cost Invoice, ME Memorandum, PB Partial Bill,
And
> if it is just a strait invoice BEG07 is not used. DE640 is used in numerous
> transactions and can easily be abused. Please note I am not suggesting Earl
is
> abusing the standards; I do understand some retailers like to throw their
weight
> around, like the recent postings on K-Mart's processing requirements. By the
> way, it use to be a lot worse when the big K was issuing one PO per carton and
> wanting the PO number encoded in the carton bar code.

We provide EDI systems to companies that trade with the Retail hubs. We don't
make them up, we just do what the TP wants ;-)

The examples I supplied were from actual outbound 810 mappings. I just looked
at the database, and made a list of all the BIG_07 variations we have... Next
time I'll supply the TP names, so that you can complain to them directly ;-)

Earl Wertheimer
http://www.spe-edi.com