Michael--Thank you so much for that post!  I have thought the exact same thing 
every week when someone posts to the group asking for contact information.  

My thought process has been exactly the same--either you have a relationship 
with this other company or you don't!  In the EDI field, we simply put together 
some technical mumbo-jumbo to make business work between two companies who have 
already had a "relationship" established somewhere in the upper eschelons above 
us.  If someone isn't using those established relationships to develop the EDI 
transactional conversations with a "trading partner", then keep it to yourself 
and use your internal resources to pull the business arm of your company 
together with the technical arm of your company into a giant EDI hug :-)

--- In [email protected], "Michael Mattias/LS" <mcmlserve@...> wrote:
>
> >Amazon is headquartered in Seattle... reduce poaching and trying to hold on 
> >to its IT staff.
> 
> Fine.
> 
> My point is, simply, what kind of 'relationship" does one have with a 
> "partner"  that you don't have a contact name?
> 
> In a very  common case -  manufacturer/distributor selling to 
> distributor/retailer, with the "we want EDI"  coming from the 
> purchaser, surely the seller has the name of the individual buyer ... worst 
> case scenario, that buyer (requester of EDI) gives you 
> the correct EDI contact info.
> 
> MCM
>




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