EDI ASN

[Chris Kelleher]

All,

- Do we HAVE to use the any of the Shipper programs to be able to use
EDI ASN export routine???
- Or can we simply use the sequence
- sosomt.p (create order)
- sosoal.p (allocate/pick)
- sosois.p (ship)
and still generate the abs_mstr records for EDI ASN ??

Regards,
KK
kkumar@raychem.com

 

[Chris Kelleher]

KK,

Until at least MFG/PRO 8.6, the program sequence you listed does not create
abs_mstr records. My 9.0 source code cross reference seems to indicate
that it now does, but I haven't been able to independently confirm that.
My quick test, however, does not show any abs_mstr records created with
sosois, so I'm going to stick with the story that it won't work. I welcome
information showing otherwise.

Abs_mstr records get created (on the customer side) through customer
schedule shipments and through enhanced shipping shipments. Starting with
MFG/PRO 8.5, if I dismember correctly, you could now also ship discrete
sales orders (instead of just scheduled orders) through those routines.
Prior to that, you could not create an ASN for a discrete sales order.

Good luck.

Scott
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Next Michigan Progress Users Group: 19 January 2000

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[Chris Kelleher]

With the ECbridges product - we can create ASN EDI messages from 3
sources:

1) Standard Shipper export using the abs_mstr file where we support many
structure types -
Shipper / item
Shipper / container / item
Shipper / pallet (tare) / container / item
Shipper / order / item
Shipper / order / pallet (tare) / item
Shipper / item / pack
And other combinations
.

2) Simple Shippers exported from invoice history

3) Simple Shippers exported in a more timely manner from Sales Orders as
they are being ship updated
(Automated as last step of Sales Order Shipments - 7.9.15)

We find EDI has standards but they are flexible and everyone wants to
interpret the standards differently (especially in X12)

Terry Magovern
"It's the stuff that dreams are made of" - Sam Spade in "The Maltese
Falcon"