We also use SAN but we use BISAC ordering and I wonder if Bill is using
EDIFACT. This doesn't answer his question but may explain the difference.
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Rosalind Pan wrote:
> Is this the same thing as the SAN number? This is years ago, but I seem
> to recall I had to send off to some organization or other to obtain what
> ours was and I think that we use that.
> http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/isbn/us/san/san-history.asp
>
> Our SAN number seems to be put into note 3- One of our EDI vendor Note3
> fields looks like this:
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> This 7 digit number at 0008 and 1021 gets padded out by the system as
> far as I can see into the header to the required 14 digits for our "GLN"
> by adding 0000001 to the front. This makes up the first 14 digits of the
> header.
>
> If you have a vendor SAN we seem to have that in the Note2 field like
> this:
> $0064=0058955
>
> I reckon you could shove in any old dummy number but I may be wrong!
> Sorry to be so non-technical.
Mieko
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