- 21. Is Your System Up to Par?
- (News)
- Hollis Tibbetts, a well-known and respected technology blogger, poses a great question in his "Is Your Integration Platform a Relic?" article on the Sys-Con site. Read Hollis' thoughts here. ...
- 22. Some Learnings from Mr. Jobs
- (Management)
- ... recently deceased leader, you’ll still find it fascinating. Obviously, Apple has nothing to do with EDI (though I bet they could’ve put together a heckuva translator back in the day), but there are still ...
- 23. Who pays the price for EDI?
- (EDI)
- ... substantially. Integration through an EDI translator or through one of these 3rd Party EDI providers is the best for all parties to share in the costs of EDI exchanges as you may realize. Passing ...
- 24. The Challenge of Change
- (Management)
- ... intertwined, as well as the third party service provider/translator. The main issue that I have seen the 860 to cause in the customer/vendor relationship is the complexity that a change causes in the ...
- 25. XML or EDI… Is There a Choice?
- (EDI)
- ... and XML processing, you may have an older translator that has limited or no support for XML, or maybe you’ve written your own XML parser and you don’t even have an EDI translator. This shouldn’t be an ...
- 26. The Overdue Demise of EDI
- (EDI)
- ... saw too much invested in EDI translators and infrastructure to warrant a move. I honestly couldn’t see the difference between the two that would justify the ROI on transferring to another technology. As ...
- 27. EDI Going Mobile
- (EDI)
- ... and the changes that need to be incorporated into translators to make processes flow properly. For most EDI practitioners, their roles are fairly well defined and fit well with established concepts. But ...
- 28. Connections that Might Be
- (Integration)
- When Scott gave us a heads-up about this month’s topic- projects involving the connection of EDI translators to ERP systems, I thought I’d have a lot to contribute. However, as I thought about it, I realized ...
- 29. The Case for EDI ROI - It Depends
- (EDI)
- ... these alternatives aren’t really EDI on your end, but they are for your partner. Lastly, you could go ‘all in’ and buy a translator and develop maps to integrate orders and support all the other transactions ...
- 30. EDI Scheduling and File Transfer Best Practices
- (Integration)
- ... waiting for the EDI translator to pick it up. The replenishment job may complete any time between 3:00 AM and 6:00 AM. Then a batched-scheduled scenario occurs twice: (1) The EDI translator has ...
- 31. Enterprise Schedulers vs EDI Schedulers
- (Integration)
- ... in effort to build custom dependency scripts. The costs range from under $10k to $100k plus, almost the cost of some EDI translators alone. These products are usually heavily regulated by corporate IT ...
- 32. How Do You Know?
- (EDI)
- ... of error processing. One valuable outcome of a series of problems we encountered with a translator upgrade project was the identification of dependencies other teams had on us for providing a constant ...
- 33. Using 852 Data May Improve Your Vision
- (Retail)
- ... who offer EDI systems, translators and services that help companies gather and then consume POS and 852 data. For example, Data Masons Software offers its Vantage Point 852 Product Activity Database and ...
- 34. Where Do I Go From Here?
- (Management)
- Let’s say you’re an experienced EDI analyst, an expert mapper and a top-notch translator jockey. What are the career options for someone with your talents? Are you “stuck” in your current role, or are ...
- 35. Brainstorm Your Way to Innovation
- (Management)
- ... in the context of an EDI team? Let’s see, you have the standards, you have maps, data comes in and gets processed and dumped into your ERP, right? And data generated by the ERP is processed by your translator ...
- 36. What are Your Measurements?
- (Management)
- ... people were handling, and how long it took our technical team to complete system-related projects. These were all internally focused things we needed to run our translator, do planning, and evaluate our ...
- 37. Supply Chain Automation Advocate or Foe
- (Supply)
- ... your translator but Logistic documents like Freight Bills, Status Messages, routing requests etc. can be managed by another company. Are you going to be the “Hero” of your organization and be an advocate ...
- 38. Go International
- (EDI)
- ... but will your systems (translator and ERP) be able to handle data with odd characters (ie. umlauts)? Will units of measure be properly handled? Addresses? Currency? We had difficulty at times with domestic ...
- 39. Here's to You
- (Management)
- ... This is the basic knowledge of how you transform data from one format to another. - *Translator*. How to make Sterling Integrator, GIS, or whatever your integration engine is do what you need it to do, ...
- 40. The Impact of a Big Project
- (Management)
- ... your routine? Here are a few: You learn new translator-based skills. We had to deal with new application file formats, IDOCs, new communications protocols, and we needed to support several entirely ...
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