Looking for some suggestions. We are going to be using Amazon PunchOut and EDI. However, Amazon is unable to batch transactions together so that we get a single file (containing all 810 and 855 transactions) like we get from GHX. We can't uses Receive and Translate because they require SFTP and in order to do that we need to purchase/install Lexicom, which isn't an option. I planned to received a batched file from them that I could push through an ED502 job doing just Translate Only - until I found out they won't batch the files. Every EDI transaction will be a separate file from them. Infor Support has said we can't just concatenate them into a single file because that won't work due to the additional data that is needed at the beginning and end of the concatenated file. I'm trying to figure out a way to generate ED502 jobs on the fly - and pass each job the file name being processed (because in the ED502 job parameters you can only supply one file name at a time). I've spent a lot of time discussing with Infor Support and they have basically said it just won't work unless we do separate jobs for each file and if we wanted more than that, we needed to work with ICS. Amazon won't batch the files, they won't create the files just during a specific time frame, basically anything I've suggested isn't possible for them. I asked if they had another Lawson client that I could talk to in order to maybe see how they were handling this and they checked and they only have 9 other Lawson clients doing EDI and all of them are on the Cloud version of Lawson (we are on V10 on-premise) - so can't get any help that way either. Anyone run into this? Have any suggestions. I was thinking maybe I could create some kind of process flow where I could somehow get the file names and keep updating a single ED502 job to process each file (change the file name in the job parameters each time). Thanks so much in advance.
