ORDHIR Order Message for Hire Working - Eurofer

UN/EDIFACT D93.A ORDHIR - Order message for hire working
In this subset, only to be used for hire working orders between steel companies, no
information is given on prices, payment conditions or other financial topics. This kind
of information is assumed to be regulated outside the ordering process, in a contract
document or message specifying the conditions of the hire working.
2.4. Message Usage
The Order message can be used to convey the information for the production of final
steel products out of a certain type of basic products. Based on the actual existing
business relation the Steel industry knows two different ways of ordering. Both
systems can use the Order message as specified in the implementation guide.
1. The first way of ordering by the customers is that the steel company receives an
order with the product specifications, quantity, delivery time and shipment
information. That means that all the information about the order is given by one
document / message. This ordering system is known in the industry as "Spot
order" and is supported in electronic data interchange by the messages Order,
Order change and Order response.
2. The second way of ordering is most in use by the automotive customers and some
customers of other industries dealing with frequent orders of same products.
In this case the steel company receives an order with the product specifications
and the information needed for shipment, known as long-term orders, "Open
orders" or "Blanket orders". The quantity and the delivery time are given by
another document or message. This document / message is known as "Delivery
instructions" (in use by Odette) or "Delivery schedule" ( in use by EDIFACT).
This ordering system is supported in electronic data interchange by the messages;
Order, Order change and Order response for product specifications and
Production schedule for the quantities and the delivery times.
Based on the use of these two different systems by the customers, the logical decision
was that it is necessary to foresee the two possibilities in hire working activities
between the service requester and service provider.
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