Understanding Acknowledgment Documents
Acknowledgements are EDI messages that confirm that the original message that you sent was received. Acknowledgements can convey a simple acceptance of the EDI message or display detailed error information that was found on the message. The system can also automatically notify you if the message was accepted or rejected. For example, the system notifies you if no acknowledgments are received within a certain period that the Advanced Ship Notice (ASN) was sent.
The system populates the EDI (System 47) tables with the data from the Acknowledgement EDI message. The system processes the acknowledgement, updates the appropriate Advance Ship Notice record and the F47046 table, and then sends an acknowledgement notification using workflow.
The system receives acknowledgements through these messages:
Functional Acknowledgements (997/CONTRL)
Application Advice (824/APERAK)
Functional Acknowledgments enables the sender of the original message to know whether any enveloping or structural errors occurred. For Functional Acknowledgments, the system does not evaluate the content of the message.
For Application Advice, the system evaluates the content of the message and returns an application advice message to relay any errors on the content of the message.