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Subject: SV: UBL 2.0 and Bill of Materials - follow up
Peter,
I am still struggling to understand how we could build a UBL Order message with sub components. From Tim McGrath's e-mail I believe we may need to handle all of his scenarios as we deal with a very large product set that may be assembled in a number of ways. Some components will be sold as both an individual order line item and as a sub-line both priced and un-priced. This is our challenge - we have many business operating units that can mix and match components in different ways and they want to become even more flexible so a simple "this is the only way" solution is not possible. Following from Tim's suggestion I have looked at the catalogue message and I can see how that gives a Bill of Materials structure but that does not solve my problem as the users may not wish to create individual catalogue entries for each of the possible combinations. My users requirement is for the BOM to be in the order/invoice as that is the model they understand and are comfortable with and do not wish to invest in catalogue messages at this time.
I know very little about UBL and I am acting as an intermediary so I may have missed Tim's point - what we really need is simple examples of how we would build UBL messages that support as a minimum Tim's scenarios. I have a fear that we will actually need an open end BOM structure as in the past I worked on an EDI Invoice that had a 6 layer line item structure to accurately reflect the data needed and could contain over 100,000 item lines in 1 invoice.
Ian Jones
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