Lawson item master interface to HSM

[Victor Ligenza]

Anyone ever build an item master interface from Lawson to HSM?  I am being told Lawson will produce a file that will contain messages to be processed by HSM.  I’m wondering if a file of messages can be produced by Lawson why not just send them real time?  Anyway, just looking for some insight on past experiences.

TIA

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[Tim Hallbauer]

Victor,

I have these interfaces set up with Cerner. We do a usage file from Cerner to Lawson to decrement the inventory and then have an item sync from Lawson to Cerner for when new items are added. If I remember correctly, these work via scheduled jobs on the Lawson side.  I think the usage side uses the IC500 job. I am not sure about the item sync job.

Regards,

Tim

[Levy Lazarre]

Victor,

Lawson doesn’t do HL7 real-time. However, there is a program named IC527 that will generate an HL7 batch file with a default name of IC527WK. This batch file can be set to contain all items in the Lawson master or only the items that have recently been updated. It depends on what you want to send to HSM.

The message structure for each item in the batch is:

MSH

MFI

CD1

CD2

CD3

You can write a TCL script to break the batch file in individual messages and send the messages to HSM via a standard HL7 MLLP interface.

I am not a Lawson expert, but the Lawson documentation or online knowledge base should give you a detailed description of the CD segments and the data elements that are sent in each field. Please note that the fields locations in the CD segments in HSM are not always the same as their Lawson counterparts, so you may have to move some fields around a little bit.

I hope this helps.

Levy

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