Re: EDI 856 ASN Confirmation

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

the other side sends a 997 to acknowledge what you sent them.  When you
send an 856 you will get a 997 back with the AK1 segment containing an "SH"


On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Gary Thompson <gthompson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I'm working on an EDI Advance Shipment Notice that has been in place for a
> few years.
>
> I can barely spell EDI and we don't do EDI translation locally; all EDI
> translation is handled
> by a national facility so that we send and receive "transaction flat
> files" containing the data
> required for our EDI Orders, Invoices, Ship Notices, etc.
>
> One gap we have is getting a definitive "acknowledgement" that an ASN
> document has
> been received and successfully translated by our trading parter.
>
> The trading partner we are more concerned with is a particularly large
> one, and the best
> we currently have is an acknowledgement they "received" an ASN document
> for a particular
> store for a particular delivery date.
>
> There are a couple of known "error conditions" which may be returned to
> us, but no confirmation
> of the ASN being successfully translated, never mind any indication when
> and if the document
> was available to the store.
>
> My question:
> Is there a way, in the "EDI Standard" to get "positive confirmation" of an
> EDI 856 ASN ?
>
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