What often time happens is that I (retailer, wholesaler, manufacturer) am not doing EDI with anyone but I have the opportunity to greatly expand my business with this buyer/customer who will only buy from me via EDI. Should I setup in-house, or go third party? And if I go third party, what do I need? We, who have done EDI for years would have no trouble answering this and many other questions; but we are not the ones who are asked. By the time we get involved, most of the software and hardware is already decided, and we are expected to clean up whatever loose ends need resolving.
I have no idea what it will cost to implement EDI so I stay conservative. But as my business grows I discover that this initial investment is much too lean and requires a much more robust system in order to keep up. Sincerely, Jason McMahon 8079 Village Drive Cincinnati, OH 45242-4315 <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] gutausse.weebly com/articles html gutausse.blogspot com <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jason-mcmahon/11/743/51b> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jason-mcmahon/11/743/51b _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of socal_ediguy Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 12:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [EDI-L] Re: <SALES> EDI Monitoring Service Not to thrown yet another log onto this bonfire, but... Isn't "EDI MONITORING" part of just about every single EDI Coordinator (manager, tech, _______ title of your choice) job description and duties...? This service seems a bit ... odd. 1 - if you're a bigger trading partner, you've already got staff to do this (your EDI coordinator, administrator, whatever) who monitors your send/receive sessions and/or the reports generated. 2 - if you're a small EDI player, you're probably using a third party for your EDI processes - like an SPS Commerce or DI Central or _____ and it's their job to be sure that your mailbox is properly sending & receiving data. So, what is the value of this proposed service from this company...? As has been mentioned many times, just twice a day is not really a valid time frame as most EDI transactions are processing 24 hours a day - depending upon your trading partner... And if you're any kind of a competent developer or programmer, you probably already have something in place to monitor and alert you of production stopping errors. Plus, using the math that Ken provided, for $41K per year, you could hire somebody to do it... even for the $29K figure, you could have some simple clerical person monitoring it for you for 40 hours per week and that be their only job function - therefore, nothing gets missed during their time "on the clock".... I think that the entire idea needs to be rethought out, not just the pricing schedule. Craig Dunham Bear Necessities Computing EDI Sherpa Author/blogger RetailEDI.com EDITalk.com --- In [email protected] <mailto:EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com> , "Darcy Running" <darcy.running@...> wrote: > > > > DCS' EDI monitoring service checks your Gentran or Integrator EDI and AS2 > systems twice daily to ensure no errors stop production. > > 1. In the morning to ensure no customer Purchase Orders are delayed. > > 2. In the afternoon to ensure no Shipment Notices are delayed. > > 3. We also check other documents such as Invoices and AS2 and EDI network > connections. > > There is no disruption of your EDI; it takes only about 0.5 hour daily. You > can focus upon other development tasks such as GS1 and e-purchasing to meet > your goals when we watch EDI for you. > > > > The cost is economical too - $50 daily for offshore or $115 daily for > domestic. > > > > Please call or email me to tell me if you are interested and want to learn > more. > > > > For more information please see: > http://www.dcs-is-edi.com/services/operate-managed-service/ > > > > Looking forward to your call, > > Darcy J. Running > > Data Communication Solutions > > 952-941-5466 (preferred), Cell 612-840-2289, Fax 952-941-5344, > www.dcs-is-edi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
