How to ftp our vendors

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How to FTP Orders

1. Go to Send File on Millennium

2. Pull-down menu: purchase orders to FTP

3. Highlight/check off the titles to be FTP’d

4. Click ftp box

5. Choose “ftp selected” or "ftp all" if that is the case

6. Click “ftp”

7. Select correct vendor under “Host”

a auxam.wmginfo.com for amat

b ftp.harrassowitz.de for har

c ftp.ybp.com for ybp

8. Click on “Connect”

9. Enter user and password and click OK

10. For non-YBP orders, click the box to rename files upon transfer, and select ASCII; For YBP, do not make these changes; YBP orders are sent in Binary.

11. For YBP, double-click the “Dropoff” subdirectory

12. Click “Put”

13. Rename the file for non-YBP orders

a format for amat: Numberdateamate.edifact, eg: Ten110705amate.edifact

b format for har: DateMilitaryTime.midcoetc, eg: 200511071315.midco.edi.orders

14. Click “OK”

15. When complete, should say 1 File Transferred – Completed

16. Click on “Disconnect,” then “Close”

17. Delete files? NO (Will delete after orders are confirmed)