Product Inquiry/Advice EDI 846 Report overview

The report provides an audit trail of all transactions that are posted to the Product Warehouse Product Setup record. It is most often used in programs designed to reduce or eliminate the handling of raw materials, such as materials management systems.

In cloud environments, you must generate output in the ION BOD format. You can generate one BOD for each vendor or one BOD for a group of vendors based on the Our Customer # on Vendor Setup records. For example, if you have records for a vendor’s commercial and residential divisions, the EDI 846 information is combined into one BOD if the Our Customer # value on both vendor records is the same.

The number of BODs that are generated for each vendor or group of vendors also depends on the number of items. By default, each BOD can contain 2000 items. If the maximum number of items is reached in one BOD, another BOD is created. By increasing the number of BODs that are generated, each BOD maintains the recommended BOD size of 5MB. The default value of 2000 items is maintained by the Maximum number of items per ION BOD business rule in SA Business Rule Setup. Because increasing the BOD size can lead to errors in BOD processing, we recommend that you do not increase the rule value for the business rule.

You must specify your customer number on the report. Otherwise, no output is generated.

If you send a BOD based on your customer number, these values are not included in the output because they vary on each vendor record:

• Vendor #
• Trading Partner
• Duns #

See information about the required ION Setup in the Infor CloudSuite Distribution Setup and Administration Guide for EDI.