B2B Interest Group

Do you want to be
more profitable?

Join the NAMM Tech Committee for "E-Commerce: Getting Started with B2B XML" to learn how you can increase profits, increase efficiency, make more accurate decisions and enhance your customer service.

Thursday, January 19 • 11 a.m.–Noon • Room 204A

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January 11, 2012

E-commerce: Getting Started with B2B XML

Join the NAMM Tech Committee and Get Started with B2B e-commerce
Thursday, January 19 • 11 a.m.–Noon • Room 204A

In today's challenging and...

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April 13, 2011

Updated Proposed 2009.2 Item Schema and Sample Document

As discussed in our meeting today:

1) The View attribute is no longer required. So [<Image view =”Undefined”>] is no longer required. You...

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January 15, 2011

NAMM Ad-hoc Technology Meets to Expand B2B Standards

The NAMM Standard Promotes Cost Savings and Efficiencies in the Music Products Industry At this year's NAMM Show, NAMM’s Ad-Hoc...
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January 7, 2010

Categories Project Update

The attached files represent the progress to date on the categories project (see post titled "Categories Project Overview" for details on this...
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NAMM B2B Interest Group Meeting

01/14/2010 - 6:00pm
01/14/2010 - 7:00pm
Etc/GMT-8

Please join for snacks and a short presentation about the latest developments in NAMM's Tech Cmte Standards Development.

Do You want to be more...

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November 13, 2009

NAMM 'Universal Product Classification' System

This document contains the draft classification system developed by NAMM several years ago. As far as I know, it is not in use anywhere except NAMM....
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November 12, 2009

Classifications Used for Music USA

Here is a file that contain categories used for NAMM 'Global Report'.  Also include are the official 'import and export' codes used in the US.

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October 16, 2009

Categories Project Update as of 10-16-09

The attached files represent the progress to date on the categories project (see post titled "Categories Project Overview" for details on this...
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October 15, 2009

Sweetwater Item Classifications

Attached is an Excel file with the classifications we use internally at Sweetwater. Please note that this does *not* reflect the classifications...
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October 13, 2009

Categories Project Overview-- What are the goals? How will we proceed?

Attached find a summary overview of the categories project as discussed at the 10-15-09 and the Summer Session 2009 meetings of the Committee....

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September 16, 2009

MF Fields for Item Doc

I received this from Tami Ramey at Musician's Friend last month.  We should review our document and make sure that we have accounted for their...

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September 16, 2009

Points of Contact for Implementing XML

Until we can get a true registry up for who all is using the XML Standard, please post the company name and contact information for the person at...
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September 16, 2009

Tri-Tech Categories

  The attached excel file contains categorization from 7 stores using Tri-Tech. Each stores categories are in a separate sheet.
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August 19, 2009

Additional TranspCodes

Guitar Center uses some tranportation methods that are currently not supported by the NAMM Transporation Codes. I would like to request that we add...
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August 19, 2009

Implementing Virtual Stock Ordering

A question has come up around here in the past few weeks regarding trying to create a standardized format for ordering and receiving electronic...
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August 19, 2009

XML Namespaces and NAMM Standards

 The issue: published NAMM Standard documents did not include namespace declaration and therefore become defined as part of the 'global'...

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West Music Categories

Submitted by rwalenta on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 2:01pm.
July 20, 2009

Nashville Meeting Follow up

I would like to thank everyone who participated in last weeks meetings.  Although attendance was understandably light, it was still a...

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July 14, 2009

2009 Nashville Meeting

The Agenda has been posted. Here are a few details for attendees: You will need a badge to get to the mezzanine level. All attendees have...
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February 26, 2009

Agenda Topics

Conversion of old site information to new site, specifically the hit list of vendors and retailers interested in participating in XML...

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February 22, 2009

Road Map

[Revised July 15, 2009] Supporting Documents Implementation Guide* Example docs* Data Dictionary* XSDs* Revise and publish...
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February 11, 2009

Blanket POs

Anybody in the group have experience with blanket POs? I’m interested to know how to create one PO (with several SKUs) for multiple ship to...

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February 9, 2009

Namespace declaration

A third party EDI provider pointed out that we may be missing the correct namespace declaration.
 
Below is what we have which he points...

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January 14, 2009

Testimonial from D'Addario & West Music

We are looking forward to replace e-mail communication with NAMM XML Standards.
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Implementation Guide

In today’s challenging and uncertain economy, finding efficiencies and cost savings in your business processes is imperative, and the shortest...

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January 6, 2009

Testimonial from West Music & Hal Leonard

XML Results with Hal Leonard
West Music Feedback
06/17/08

Time:
1. Manually Faxing PO 2-3 min
2. Uploading PO – 1 min 32 sec
3. XML...

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September 8, 2008

Tri-Technical Systems - Electronic Orders (September 2008)

Technology is beginning to get a foothold in the MI Industry for the independent and regional chain stores. In the past few months, the users of...

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