Re: AW: [ebxml-dev] RE: [EDI-L] Article on ebXML Core Components ...

[Mike Rawlins <mike@rawlinsecconsulting.com>]

It feels to me like we're already in another rat hole, so I will limit 
myself to one brief comment on this topic and NO MORE!

Todd Boyle wrote:

> At 07:16 AM 4/25/02, Mike Rawlins wrote:
>
> > Interesting.  However, it says nothing about receiving POs from
> > customers, which QB still doesn't do.  No customer/internal cross
> > references for part number or customer ship to locations.  Bottom line,
> > still extremely lacking for any realistic eBusiness.
>
> There will be a VERY competitive market of e-business add-ons
> for Quickbooks.   Are you seriously suggesting that none of them
> will allow Quickbooks to receive an electronic PO??  gtfooh.. :-)

Perhaps my fault for not being more specific. This has nothing to do 
with receiving an electronic PO, or e-business.  It is more basic than 
that.  QB 2002 doesn't even know what a purchase order received from a 
customer is.  You have to create it as an invoice.  It has no concept, 
user functionality, or apparent internal data structures for creating an 
order from a customer and maintaining it through a fulfillment cycle.  I 
seriously doubt that a third party add-on could provide this 
functionality.  Even if they did, I would be leery about buying 
something this basic and integral to the application from a third party. 
 If I needed functionality like this I would instead purchase a more 
capable package like PeachTree or Sage's MAS90.


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Michael C. Rawlins, Rawlins EC Consulting
www.rawlinsecconsulting.com