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Penguin Random House EDI

Penguin Random House Electronic Ordering Fast Response System Specifications

The Penguin Random House Fast Response system is designed to allow customers to send X12 850 format orders via FTP to the Penguin Random House Order Fulfillment system. An order response (POA- X12 855) is generated and returned to the customer within a few minutes (in most cases).

Order Formats Supported

X12 004010 format (Specifications supplied on request)
X12 003060 Pubnet Format

How to Send Production Orders to the Penguin Random House Fast Response system

To send via FTP you need to request an FTP account setup for your SAN. (See the contact information below)

FTP Server Address

ftp.randomhouse.com

Procedure for Sending an Order via FTP

Connect to our FTP server using the customer SAN number as the login and the password that we will supply.
Put the order file in the root directory, no change directory command is required.
The file can be named anything and there is no length limit, but we encourage unique file names. We sweep for filenames every 60 seconds, if you place a file with the same name in the directory before the sweep has completed the new file will replace the previous file.
Each SAN has its own directory for dropping off files, so you do not need to be concerned about the uniqueness compared to other SAN numbers files.
The order should be processed and the POA returned in about 4 minutes. Orders larger than 100 lines may take longer.

Procedure for Picking up the Order Response (POA) via FTP

Connect to our FTP server using the customer SAN number as the login and the password that we will supply.
Change directory to the "pickup" directory (cd pickup)
Get the Order Response File
The files will be named with a date and time stamp (11 digits, MMDDHHMMSSs) and an extension of either .CXA for X12 format POA's and .CFA for Bisac Fixed format POA's.
You can do an mget *.CXA or mget *.CFA to pull the files.
Rename the POA files to .EXA or .EFA after you have pulled it successfully.
We will delete all extracted .E## files at some interval.

Testing with the Penguin Random House Fast Response System

Test FTP Login

In order to test FTP access, send a test order and receive a test order response- FTP the order file to the root directory of the server described below and pickup the order response in the pickup directory.

Server: ftp.randomhouse.com
Login: 2013975
Password: 3rd3y3

X12 Order Testing

Use the SAN numbers specified below.

Testing procedure depending on Format Version (3060 or 4010)

Example: (X12-4010-FTP) = X12 format in 4010 version sent via FTP

X12-4010-FTP

Use ISA + GS sender and N1-ST Ship-to of FTP4010 and with a receiver of 2013975
Drop file off on the FTP site named above
Pickup POA on the FTP site named above in the pickup directory

Example:

ISA|00| |00| |ZZ|FTP4010 |ZZ|2013975 |060206|142 8|U|00401|900000147|0|P|> GS|PO|FTP4010|2013975|20060206|1428|147|X|004010 ST|850|000000001 BEG|00|NE|545||20060206|| CSH|O DTM|001|20060206 N1|ST||15|FTP4010

X12-3060-FTP