External Purchasing Suggestions

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Somebody correct me if I wrong but I think your stuck with custom programming. API's don't come into play until version 8.

Jasper

-----Original Message-----
From: jerryd104 [mailto:gdahlinger@...]
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 4:11 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] External Purchasing Suggestions


We're running Vantage 6.0 (upgrading to 6.1 in the near future) and
are implementing a 3rd party scheduling system (based on TOC). We
would like to continue to use Vantage Purchasing Suggestions to create
and change PO's but we want the required suggestion data to come from
our external scheduling system. Instead of using Vantage to generate
the suggestions, we want to update the Vantage PO suggestions tables
(SUGPODTL and SUGPOCHG) using some kind of routine to upload or import
the data from an SQL Server database.
The suggestion data will reside in a SQL Server database. Is my only
recourse to have Epicor Custom Programing produce a program to import
some kind of text file? Our scheduling system provider thinks there
should be an "API" that could be used for this but I've never heard of
any available Vantage API's.
Any "suggestions" will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jerry Dahlinger







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We're running Vantage 6.0 (upgrading to 6.1 in the near future) and
are implementing a 3rd party scheduling system (based on TOC). We
would like to continue to use Vantage Purchasing Suggestions to create
and change PO's but we want the required suggestion data to come from
our external scheduling system. Instead of using Vantage to generate
the suggestions, we want to update the Vantage PO suggestions tables
(SUGPODTL and SUGPOCHG) using some kind of routine to upload or import
the data from an SQL Server database.
The suggestion data will reside in a SQL Server database. Is my only
recourse to have Epicor Custom Programing produce a program to import
some kind of text file? Our scheduling system provider thinks there
should be an "API" that could be used for this but I've never heard of
any available Vantage API's.
Any "suggestions" will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jerry Dahlinger