Edition V4.04: Say What the fuck!?!

Well, isn’t this special!  New request, customer (not to be named) wants to treat my EDI client as 3 vendors, separating along product lines.  Ok, sounds simple enough, throw in a different Duns number in a N1*VN, or a REF segment, and good to go.  Or so one would think!

Braniac inc, wants to use the same sender ID, even though they now need to appear as 3 separate customers......  Our faithful reader is now asking himself, how the fuck are you supposed to do that?!?!  Well, Braniac Inc. has decided that we should identify them, by the receiver ID that the use for the 3 virtual vendor companies.... 

Let’s let that sink in a minute....  It’s the equivalent of a company wanting to send all corporate email from the same email address, to your company, but you are to deduce who the sender acutally is based on who it’s going to.....  Uhm, yeah.

Club Zed my ass.  Oops.