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Monthly Delivery Report for ECAT -- New Vendors

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lorraine J. Rappaport)
Fri Dec 7 20:19:35 2001

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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 20:21:41 -0500
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Project Name: ECAT - New Vendors 
Submitted by: Lorraine Rappaport 
Report Date: December 7, 2001 
Project URL: http://web.mit.edu/is/delivery/ecat

Accomplishments Past Period:
General:
- Continued discussions about documentation changes needed for the ECAT pages.

PC Connection:
- Tested PC Connection's catalog features and navigation.  
- Compiled feedback on catalog -- one navigation problem and a few minor
requests -- and sent to PC Connection.
- Sent several test EDI 850s based on test catalog reqs. to PC Connection.
All
looks good.

Dell:
- Established access to Dell's test catalog and began to test features and
navigation.
- Made good progress with XML capability for the Order Request and Order.

Grainger:
- Kept up-to-date on Grainger's schedule for rolling out their new catalog.
 We
have been selected as a beta site for their rollout to SAP customers.
- Held conference calls to review several technical details.


Goals for Next Period:
General:
- Continue to outline support needs and issues.

PC Connection:
- PC Connection fixes navigation problem and change requests and moves us to
their QA environment.
- Test and validate in QA environment.
- Finalize EDI 850 (purchase order) transaction.
- Continue testing EDI 810 (invoice) transaction.

Dell:
- Complete XML work for Order Request.
- Make substantial progress on XML Order.

Grainger:
- Get time estimate from Grainger for implementation.  


Issues:
- Other work competes for the same scarce resources.



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