Re: GCI Conversations

[MKudela@uc-council.org]

Mark,

To answer your question, on the Order ...


The DTD references ItemId information such as GlobalTradeItemNumber and
alternateProductID.   However, the example instances do not contain this
information.  Is this because the items are aligned and are not required in
order exchange ?

The answer is yes, the business scenario is that the information on the
parties and the trade item is already aligned, and it is done once per
party and once per item. It can be updated or modified whenever there is a
change.

However, there is no need for that information to be resent in the simple
Order, because the parties have already aligned their databases and now are
ready to exchange a simple PO - the party id and the trade id gives the
details of what exactly is being ordered.

Thanks
Melanie

Melanie Kudela
EC Technical Manager
UCC, Inc.
Princeton Pike Corporate Center
1009 Lenox Dr., Suite 202
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, USA
609-620-4514
mkudela@uc-council.org


                                                                                          
                    Mark Hale                                                             
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Melanie & Pam,

Thanks for working with us to straighten out the payload issues for GCI in
the POC.  I organized what Melanie forwarded to the group into the attached
POC conversations.  The POC conversations were further refined based on the
f2f meeting today and an update is attached to this e-mail.

I did modify the conversations to be used to demonstrate the TR&P
specifications in accordance with ebXML.  In the aligment and order
exchange
conversations, I added alignment and acceptance messages that are
consistent
with the DTD that you gave us for aligment and order exchange.  It is
understood by the group that I am in communication with you to insure that
the end result still reflects an appropriate GCI payload.

I ask that you please work with me to clarify the Order Exchange DTD.  The
DTD references ItemId information such as GlobalTradeItemNumber and
alternateProductID.   However, the example instances do not contain this
information.  Is this because the items are aligned and are not required in
order exchange or is it because the instance is not complete (by which I
could get the information from an alignment instance to complete it)?  In
either case, this is not a showstopper to the POC demo.

As a final note, Melanie provided me with a list of implementation
considerations that is useful in measuring the capabilities/success of the
demonstration (why are headers needed, how payload is wrapped etc.).  This
feedback is very good and it came up in the proposal writing f2f today.  We
are going to address this in two ways.  First, implementation discussions
will be added to the proposal.  Secondly, we discussed releasing a POC
review document shortly after Tokyo to critique the demonstration and its
effectiveness.

Again, this is coming together very well and we appreciate your supporting
the POC.

           Thanks,

           Mark
(See attached file: GCI Conversations v2.0.zip)

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