Re: SV: [ubl] Agenda for Atlantic UBL TC call 6 August 2014 14:00UTC

[Kenneth Bengtsson <kenneth@alfa1lab.com>]

Dear Ken/Roberto/all

We too have users (several actually) who require to reference more than
one purchase order from an invoice. It is a convenience both for the
buyers and suppliers to be able to bill products and services from several
purchase orders in one big invoice. They argue that it simplifies their
payment processes. We even have a user (at least one) where the relation
between purchase orders and invoices is many to many.

We use the AdditionalDocumentReference element to support these processes.
We haven't had a requirement from these users to automatically match
invoice items to order items.

Best regards,

Kenneth


On 8/6/14, 10:22 AM, "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com> wrote:

>At 2014-08-06 10:05 +0200, JAVEST by Roberto Cisternino wrote:
>>I see Peter,
>>but I could not have that level of detail.
>>
>>The requirement is simply to support the case where an invoice is
>>related to one or more purchase orders.
>
>I understand you see this as a simple requirement, Roberto, but may I
>ask you, please, to elaborate how such a change would be exploited by
>users?
>
>During today's teleconference the point was raised that the header
>reference is used as a kind of default for the line items that do not
>have a specific reference.  If more than one order is allowed to be
>referenced at the header level, the absence of a line reference would
>be ambiguous and prevent processing software to reliably match
>invoice items to order items.
>
>I've recognized your requirement in the committee's JIRA project:
>
>   https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/UBL-8
>
>Meanwhile, could you either comment there (your committee membership
>should be enough credentials) or here on the list?
>
>Thanks for this input!
>
>. . . . . . Ken
>
>
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