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NAMM Committee Releases New Version of B2B XML Standards

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Version 2009.1 Promotes Costs Savings and Efficiencies in the Music Products Industry

In today's challenging and uncertain economy, finding efficiencies and cost savings in your business processes is imperative. For the past two years, experts from across all channels of the music products industry have partnered together, designing a tool to enhance business practices.

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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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October 2009 Meeting

10/15/2009 - 12:00am
10/16/2009 - 11:59pm
Etc/GMT-7

Thursday, October 15
 

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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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September 2009 Teleconference

09/16/2009 - 11:00am
09/16/2009 - 12:00pm
Etc/GMT-7

Agenda

October Meeting in Carlsbad
Review Status of Classification
Deliverables for January Timeframe
Updating the...

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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 17, 2009

NAMM Committee Releases New Version of B2B XML Standards

Version 2009.1 Promotes Costs Savings and Efficiencies in the Music Products Industry In today's challenging and uncertain economy, finding...
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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

This document applies to NAMM Standard B2B XML v2009.2
In today’s challenging and uncertain economy, finding efficiencies and cost savings in...

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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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