Re: [ubl-dev] cXML Order Request to UBL Order

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 2009-07-07 11:06 -0400, Marzka, Jeremy wrote:
>I am in the process of mapping trading partner documents in various 
>formats to a UBL Order layout. The document I am currently working 
>on is a cXML Order Request and I am not sure where to map the 
>following header fields:

Here are my guesses:

>Order total

  /po:Order/cac:AnticipatedMonetaryTotal
  "An association to the total amounts for the Order anticipated by the Buyer."

>Third party billing

  /po:Order/cac:AccountingCustomerParty
  "An association to the Accounting Customer Party. The party that 
Invoice is expected to be sent to if not the buyer party."

>Drop ship PO/release

  /po:Order/cac:DeliveryTerms

>Payment terms

  /po:Order/cac:TransactionConditions

>Ship Complete (For the header)

  /po:Order/cac:DeliveryTerms

>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I don't have an accounting background, so I don't even recognize some 
of your terminology (such as drop ship PO and release), but I hope 
that my guesses turn your face in the correct direction.

Please don't take my interpretations as gospel ... I'm trying to 
learn here myself by throwing up straw-man suggestions to be torn 
down if necessary.  I hope the business experts on the list will 
provide their own suggestions.

I'm also working with OASIS regarding setting up a collaborative 
environment on UBL.xml.org where each and every business entity in 
UBL can be discussed.

>I'd also be interested to hear what your process is to find 
>equivalent fields in UBL.

I'm looking through the HTML summary reports found here:

     http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/resources/ubl/index.htm#ubl2modelreport

... because the hyperlinking through the tables is very quick, and 
they copy most of the information from the spreadsheets.  Note there 
are two main sections:  the definitions and the tables.  Numeric 
hyperlinks link back and forth switching between the two 
sections.  Alphabetic hyperlinks link within the same section.

>It seems to me like there isn't much documentation for the 
>recommended use of the fields.

True ... my personal perspective is that it is not the UBL TC's role 
to tell a community of users *how* to use UBL, just to provide the 
standardized framework within which a community of users can send 
their information between parties using agreed-upon constructs.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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