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Amount fields to be empty if they are zero?

From: "Andrew BK" <edi_meister@...>
Date: Thu May 8, 2003  11:18 pm
Subject: Amount fields to be empty if they are zero?
I have a supplier who thinks an amount field, such as SAC05, must be
null if its value is zero.

For example, if you're using SAC to represent a shipping charge, and
the line item had free shipping, and you still needed to state that
charge of zero, I would expect to see:

SAC*C*G830***0**********Free shipping*EN~

or possibly

SAC*C*G830***000**********Free shipping*EN~

(SAC05 is N2)

But this supplier thinks that putting a value of 0 in the numeric
element is against the X12 004010 standard.

A value specified to be zero is not unknown.
Am I missing something here?

Thanks,

Andrew




 
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