EDI: Product Grade Finder

Product/Grade Finder
GCA Standard 142-1999

GCA's EDI Committee and working group developed the product/grade finder transaction as part of the objective to cover the entire range of activity involving paper control, and to provide a tool for significantly improving the process of paper management. It offers a mean for paper customers to systematically and electronically capture product data, and use the manufacturers' product codes for ordering.

In the Purchase Order and Related Transactions (GCA Std. 135-1999), the document encourages customers to use the manufacturers' product codes to reduce interpretation errors that can occur at the mill. This transactions uses the X12 sales/price catalog. (X12 transaction set number 832) as its basis, but this implementation contains no pricing data. The working group also chose not to use the word 'catalog' in the title, as not to give the impression it provides an online ordering device.

A working group chaired by Gerry Galewski of Perry Judd's Inc. developed Product/Grade Finder for Paper Used in Publishing and Printing. This working group is part of GCA's Electronic Data Interchange Committee chaired by Bill Orndorff, also of Perry Judd's Inc. and Brian Scharlach of McGraw-Hill Companies.

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