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

[Mark Leitch <ml@tritorr.com>]

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

To me, the important word in ‘consolidated billing’ is the ‘billing’.
Billing usually means ‘demanding payment’ and/or ‘providing tax evidence’ and the proper document to use in this instance is the Invoice; known widely in this context as a ‘Consolidated Invoice’.
The most extreme extreme example of this is the Purchasing Card which effectively consolidates many Invoices from many suppliers into one billing file.  The VISA XML format for this file is ‘VGIS’ or the ‘VISA Global Invoice Standard’ recognising the fact that, although many people think of it as the card ‘statement’, it is, in fact, an Invoice; a demand from the card issuer for the card user organisation to pay monies due (and regard particular elements of the file as tax evidence).
The approach of linking Orders to Invoices at Line level accommodates the consolidated invoicing approach.
The Statement in our model is designed for information only and should not be confused with the [Consolidated] Invoice.  Anyone using the Statement for this purpose will find that it does not contain some of the elements in the real Invoice, most notably Tax.

Regards, M

Mark Leitch

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From: Sylvia Webb <swebb@gefeg.com>
Organization: GEFEG
Reply-To: <swebb@gefeg.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:14:37 -0800
To: <ubl-psc@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: RE: [ubl-psc] Weights and measures in Order documents

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,
Sylvia

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From: Peter Larsen Borresen [mailto:plb@itst.dk]
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 3:18 AM
To: ubl-psc@lists.oasis-open.org; Mikkel Hippe Brun
Subject: SV: [ubl-psc] Weights and measures in Order documents

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
> Til: ubl-psc@lists.oasis-open.org
> Emne: [ubl-psc]  Weights and measures in Order documents
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> 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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