PPL Business Rules for
e-Transactions

1. Suppliers using Order Manager should use Purchase Order, Change Order, Purchase Order Response and Invoice as minimum functionality.  Enporion will assign an e-Commerce Platform Manager to train suppliers on use of Order Manager.
   
   
2. Suppliers with less than 45 transactions per month may use Order Manager as a long-term solution.
   
   
3. Suppliers with 45 to 90 transactions per month with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) not capable of EDI or XML direct integration should develop an upgrade plan with reasonable implementation time while using Order Manager.
   
   
4. Suppliers with more than 90 transactions per month with ERP capable of EDI or XML direct integration should consider implementing direct integration and only use Order Manager as a temporary solution.
   
   
5. Enporion will assign an e-Commerce Platform Manager to each supplier who will facilitate and track integration progress.
   
   
6. Suppliers for EDI or XML direct integration should enable and use Purchase Order, Change Order, Purchase Order Response and Invoice as a minimum functionality.
   
   
7. Purchase Orders may contain multiple ship-to addresses, consisting of a different ship-to address per line item.  Suppliers directly integrating to Enporion’s Marketsite via XML or EDI must support this requirement. 
   
   
8. Suppliers should ensure that each e-invoice includes the Purchase Order number and original Purchase Order line item number.
   
   
9. Each e-invoice should refer to 1 (and only 1) stand-alone PO or PO/release.
   
   
10. e-Invoices are for material purchases only.  At this time, PPL’s business limitations cannot accept e-invoices for services.
    
    
11. Charges for returnable containers, cylinders or demurrage and surcharges such as fuel, steel, hazmat or delivery are not to be included with the item’s unit price.  Such charges must be quantified with the PPL buyer prior to e-invoicing and included in the line item miscellaneous charges field of the e-invoice.