Receiving purchase order acknowledgments

You can receive purchase order acknowledgements from the vendor to notify you when the vendor receives the order when you issue your purchase orders via electronic data interchange (EDI). The acknowledgment verifies receipt of the order, summarizes the information on the purchase order, and validates the authenticity of the order. This procedure shows you how to receive purchase order acknowledgements.

Acknowledgment of a purchase order is only available when you issue purchase orders using EDI as the issue method. For information about setting up your company for EDI processing, see the Lawson EDI Standard and EDI Professional for Supply Chain Management User Guide.

Infor Process Automation users have services available that notify buyers when acknowledgments are processed against their purchase orders, and that notify them when items requested on a purchase order were successfully ordered (if ordering failed, a message is provided). For more information, see the LPA Services for Infor Lawson Reference Guide.

Procedure flow: Receiving purchase order acknowledgements

To receive purchase order acknowledgments

  1. Access Transmitted PO Acknowledgment (PO122).
  2. Add a Job name and a description of the job.
    Note: If you do not provide an input file name, the file name defaults to the one specified in your Lawson EDI documentation.
  3. To add the name of an input file, type a file name in the File Name field.
  4. Submit the job.