12/21/09 From Pubnet Support
You may have recently received this email from Pubnet:
997 Pubnet Request from Follett Higher Education GroupDear Pubnet Vendor,
Effective January 1, 2010, Follett Higher Education Group is requesting that a functional acknowledgement (997) be returned to them as receipt of their purchase orders (850).
To help streamline this process we ask that you contact Irwin Gafen at igafen@fheg.follett.com or 630-850-1024 to confirm your organization can handle this request and to coordinate testing and implementation.
As always, please contact Pubnet Technical Support
(888-269-5372) for assistance with testing.
If you have any questions in regard to the transactional costs please contact David Campbell at david.campbell@bowker.com or 908-219-0139.
We appreciate your assistance in this process.
Sincerely,
The Pubnet Team
888-269-5372
support@pubnet.org
What this means to you:
Many of your small Pubnet trading partners do not want to receive FAs, so the Unitech translator has not included them in your EDI processing of Pubnet POs. We are working with Pubnet and Follett’s to determine if this will be necessary with Follett’s. They are aware that we will not be ready to send FAs to Follett’s over Pubnet by the target start date of January 1st, 2010, and have assured us that this is when they would like to begin rolling out FAs, and is not a completion deadline.
Pubnet has not determined the cost of this new document for vendors as of 12/22/09.
01/21/10 – Pubnet has confirmed that the cost per transaction for Follett’s FAs will be .15.
Please check back here for further updates.