All,
If the Statement is for
information purposes only, what does a company do that uses the
Statement as the only billing document?. As an example in the
telecommunication industry, some very large well known providers refuse
invoices and only accept statements. This is what they pay from and it
may include allowances and charges. They will not pay from a document
that is for information purposes only. They call this Consolidated
Billing. If the Statement is for a single phone number or department
and the allowance or charge applies to the total amount, it may not be
possible or practical to split this at the line level.
Statement billing is also common
in Professional Services industries. The Statement is sent and no
invoice is generated.
Regards,
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
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.
--
regards
tim mcgrath
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