SV: [ubl-psc] Weights and measures in Order documents

[Peter Larsen Borresen <plb@itst.dk>]

Hi PSC

 

Mark and I had a meeting this morning and we found out that the values could have a meening in the order response, order response simple and the depatch advide (perhaps even in the receipt advice). But it they should be packaged into a RespondedQuantityTotal ABIE (or an other name e.g. document Measure) so it is more clear what they are used for.

 

Mark think that TaxTotal in order response should not be qualified with "proposed". He does not see the reason for qualifying it in the order either. I would like it qualified in the order with "expected" in stead of proposed.

 

We also found the need for clearifying that a UBL Statement is for information purpose only. I can not be used a base for billing purpose like a statemen from Euro card. Therefore we agree with Mikkel that it is a bad idea to have AllowanceCahnge on a statement

 

For the fore simple issues on Mikkels list we found that

 

-StatementDocumentReference should be removed

-Order change should have a validityPeriod

-OrderChange should have a reference to one and only one order.

-We should consider having only one order for a order cancellation or note that this is best practice.

-SellersOrderId must be changed to SalesOrderId and BuyersOrderId to ID in Order Response

 

/Peter

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Fra: Tim McGrath [mailto:tmcgrath@portcomm.com.au]
Sendt: 14. december 2005 01:55
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Emne: [ubl-psc] Weights and measures in Order documents

It was questioned why we had the following items in the Order ABIE.

TotalPackagesQuantity

GrossWeightMeasure

NetWeightMeasure

NetNetWeightMeasure

GrossVolumeMeasure

NetVolumeMeasure

They are there because they were inherited in the original UBL from the xCBL Order Summary structure.  And, to date, no-one has challenged them.

The only past comments I could find justifying this are:

This is particularly important for the industries like tobacco where tax is calculated on the weight of the cigarettes rather than on the retail item.

(UBL 0p65 Jan 2002)

Note, that they are not used in the UBL 1.0 Small Business Subset.  Also they are all optional and can be derived from the underlying Order Line Items - they are derivative totals.

So unless we can get someone to come up with a justification, it looks like we may drop these.


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