Re: Bulk POs.

Sairam

> one of our partners started sending Bulk PO in advance to actual POs.
> This is just FYI type information but we don't have to do any real shipments
> against it.

Booking orders are a normal feature of most department stores.

> So, we decided not to load it into our backend system.

That would be wrong. How do you verify style, price & qty information?
The order is real and should also be added to the current open orders.

> Now, how do we process this in our translator (Gentran NT 5).

I don't use Gentran.

> If we want to fail it based on some logic, we would send a failure 997 to
> partner which is not acceptable to them. Can we write it into a different
> location based on PO#?
>
> Please suggest if you have come across similar situation and how your are
> handling it.

We send the Bulk PO to the ERP system, but it is not shipped. When the Release
Order arrives, it is shipped.

Earl Wertheimer
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