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Post Office Counters Ltd
Tony Oppenheim
Finance and Commercial Director,
ICL Pathway Ltd.,
Dear Tony,
Missing Transfers to TIP
Thank you for your two e-mails of 11th May on this issue.
Tagree with your concern that we need to take action to ensure that the practical
issues are managed and resolved promptly. My understanding is that POCL's TIP
system has retained.the file of repaired data which you 're-transmitted to us
following our rejection of it. However, we have no way of processing its contents
without compromising the integrity of our accounting and MIS systems.
Contrary to your assertion, you have not complied with the Pathway to TIP AIS. The
AIS requires that Transactions should be passed in one.sub-file per outlet per trading
day. (See the table in section 2.2). Your transmission of a second sub-file for those
offices with data errors does not comply with this aspect of the AIS.
The fact that Interim TIP may have accepted such files despite their non- compliance
is-not relevant. You were not entitled to rely on such a relaxation of the AIS which, as
you will be aware, was a necessary short term measure because of.the absence of
adequate integrity controls‘on the Pathway side of the interface, and the resulting
level of errors. That position should have changéd with the.introduction of the
Integrity Control Release, and this was taken into account in Operational TIP.
POCL requires you:to take immediate measures to restore your compliance with all
requirements of the Pathway to TIP AIS, until any changes to that interface:shall
have been agreed through the Change Control process.
Yours'sincerely,
Keith Baines”
Keith Baines i
Head of Horizon Commercial
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