Grouped Items and EDI PO Import

Good day Suite People. I need some feedback if any of you have integrated EDI while using Item Groups. Here is my issue.

We use Item Groups for some items on the Sales Order side of things.   These are used to capture "extra" fees or Tariff cost were we want the item and fee to be separated on the accounting side, but combine as one on the invoice. Probably the same thing many of you are using Groups for.

On the EDI side, we have EDI set-up to receive the item number from the customer, but push into NS the internal ID of the Group. This works fine and the Group is created on the SO. The issue is price verification. Our EDI source natively checks the price on the customer PO and validates that amount against the price of the item in NS, if the Internal ID is that of an Item. As you know, grouped items do not have a value, so this validation doesn't work. Furthermore, as we are pushing in