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Shipping
Schedule
GCA Standard 143-1999
This transaction serves a specific need
in the industry, namely to alert printers
to future shipments of paper ordered
by print customers. Where print customers,
such as magazine or catalog publishers,
purchase paper and have it shipped to
the printing plant, often the first
notice to printers of the shipment is
the electronic manifest, sent at the
time of shipment.
In
an EDI environment, with just-in-time
deliveries, the electronic manifests
provide very little notice of that delivery.
The shipping schedule transaction helps
fill that gap. Paper mills can (and
should) send and acknowledgement of
the purchase order to the print customer,
often well before the shipment. P.O.
acknowledgements however may contain
prices that mills and print customers
may not want to divulge. The shipping
schedule, transmitted at the same time
as the P.O. acknowledgement, enables
mills to list the items ordered and
approximate shipping date, thus providing
the printer advance notice of shipment
but without any prices.
A
working group chaired by Gerry Galewski
of Perry Judd's Inc. developed Shipping
Schedule 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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