Subject: UBL 0p70 Release
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:00:00 +0000
From: Stephen Cowe <stephen.cowe@sun.com>
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc.
To: William Meadows <Bill.Meadows@sun.com>
CC: "MacInnes, Bob" <bob.macinnes@sun.com>

Hi Bill,

How are you, looks like you've been busy :-)

I've not had a chance to look at the detail of the standards, but a very
quick question regarding the business process/message flow for the
buyer/seller procurement cycle.

Q) Why no Purchase Order change?

Reading the web-site it states that, for a buyer initiated change, the buyer
must first cancel the order and then raise a new order.  This is not a
feasible business practice for many organisations and/or ERP systems.

Will a buyer initiated PO Change standard be coming out at a later revision
of these standards or are you hoping that someone will take the core
components and create one for submission?

If you could let me know about this asap, we will start looking at the
detail and try to get more comments back to you.

Cheers,

Stephen.

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