Lanham EDI Inbound 850 Problems

KimDyn

We are using Lanham's EDI module. We have the Gen2 version. I am receiving 850's that are meant for Sales Orders into the system. I don't have many problems doing this. The problem I encounter is when the inbound 850 is meant to be a cancellation or modification of an 850 already received into the system.

The BEG segment looks like this:
BEG*01*SA*939299**20080213***IEL

The 01 is meant to indicate a cancellation, does anyone have any advice on how to handle this?

Thanks for your help!!!

Kimberly

Alex_Chow

Are you talking about 860?

To directly answer your question, there's no easy to go about it other than to modify how it works in the code when you're using a 850 mapping.

Just curious, which trading partner are you working with that uses 850 for cancellation and modification?

Savatage

I use Gen1 so I don't know if this is any help. Hopefully Alex will chime in [-o<

Ooops he beat me already.
I was wondering that too. usually an 850 is simply a PO
816-Oranizational Relationship
850-Purchase Order
856-Advanced Ship Notice
810-Invoice
864-Text Message
860-Purchase order Change
997-Finctional Acknowledgement

anyway how I usually do something like this (in gen1) would be to view the segments of the 850 doc. then review the elements of the BEG segment. Then figure out a way to set a conditional to handle the different options.

Sound complicated right

Alex_Chow

Haha... You clicked on Reply too late!

Anywho, adding to the original poster's question, you might want to go back to your trading partner and demand that they use 860 to change orders.

You'd be surprised at how many company's IT staff that you trade EDI with does not know what they're doing.

KimDyn

Actually I have two trading partners whose specs detail the use of the 850 for New PO's, Modified PO's and Cancelled PO's. The T.P.'s are Detroit Diesel and John Deere.

On the 860 front, I don't have a sample inbound 860 for Lanham's EDI. I might be able to look at how the 860 modifieds the Sales Order with the changes in 860 and apply the same theory to the 850. :-k

Or maybe I should just use conditionals to move all the data to EDI In fields if the 01 exists in the BEG segment. :sick:

Alex_Chow

Yep, using conditionals is the way to do it. However, you'll need to find a way to print a report so the user can make these changes manually.

KimDyn

Well, it is not exactly how I pictured having to process these but I guess it is what it is. Thanks for all the follow up!