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RE: X12 Specs
This is a nice thought, but what Darren had in mind first might be more
realistic. My advice would be to find out what transactions are being
provided by your competitors, and which are required by your potential
customers. Unless you are the proverbial 800lb gorilla, supporting a
particular transaction IS the business need, not the other way around.
Perl would seem particularly well suited to the low level tasks of creating
or parsing delimited records. If there are modules out there, my guess
would be they would be for parts of the process, but not a full-fledged
mapper. If you are considering writing your own mapper...consider not
writing your own mapper. It is tempting, because the commercial products
are expensive, but if you have more than a few trading partners and
transactions, the cost of maintaining your own system might very well exceed
the cost of a license and support. It's something to think about.
Howard Parks
1 Peter 4:10
-----Original Message-----
From: Ajay K sanghi [mailto:
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 1:25 AM
To: Darren Young;
Subject: RE: [EDI-L] X12 Specs
Darren,
Just a word of caution.
You write:
"I work for a freight shipping company
and need to find all of the transactions that we could possibly require."
On July 28, 1996, Mark Hughes had responded, which made it to my forever EDI
implementation issues file. This is what Mark had to say,
"<snip> Start with a clean sheet of paper and ask yourself the crucial
question:
'What data do I need to exchange with my Trading Partner to run my business
better'.
When you have identified what data you need to exchange when, and what
business rules apply, then go looking for a message to stick the data in.
The messages are determined by the business needs, and not the other way
round<snip>"
Hope this helps.
Ajay
Ajay K Sanghi
Managing Director
ABO Software Private Limited
"EDISPHERE"
B102 Gulmohar Park, New Delhi 110049
Tel: +91 11 6968976, 6512822 Fax: 6518873
Website: http://www.abosoftware.com
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