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

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 2014-08-06 15:52 +0000, Kenneth Bengtsson wrote:
> 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.

And this is currently accommodated at the line level, where every 
invoice line can be associated with an order line in any purchase order.

> We use the AdditionalDocumentReference element to support these processes.

Interesting ... so the association is at the header level, which 
matches Roberto's requirement.

> We haven't had a requirement from these users to automatically match
> invoice items to order items.

Of course the process is optional ... but the line items were 
designed to, at the least, support the relationship.

Thank you for your input!

. . . . . . Ken

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