Transmitted PO Acknowledgement (PO122)

Run Transmitted PO Acknowledgment (PO122) to update purchase order acknowledgments sent by vendors via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Before you can use this program, the buyer must create and transmit a purchase order to the vendor via EDI, and the vendor must use EDI to create and transmit an acknowledgment of the purchase order. At this point, you can use this program to update the purchase order acknowledgment date. This date is the date that appears on PO Revision History (PO66.1).

Processing Effect

If you do not supply a file name, the program will take its input from the default file as specified in the Lawson EDI Standard and EDI Professional for Supply Chain Management User Guide.

This program creates the PO Acknowledge Report, a combined summary and exception report that lists the purchase orders that were processed. If there is an error in processing a purchase order or differences between the purchase order and the acknowledgment, there will be message lines under the purchase order identifying the error or difference.

Examples of errors and differences the program will find are:

  • item is rejected
  • item is on backorder
  • acknowledged unit of measure does not match purchase order
  • acknowledged unit cost does not match purchase order
  • estimated delivery date does not match the purchase order early delivery date

The PO Acknowledge Report is sorted by company, buyer, vendor, vendor location, and purchase order.

More Information

A ProcessFlow service, "EDIPOAckNotify", is available that will e-mail buyers when their purchase orders are acknowledged. Enabling the ProcessFlow service will also create an individual copy of the PO Acknowledge Report for each buyer, which contains only their purchase orders.

Another ProcessFlow service, "TransmittedPOAck", is available that notifies buyers that items requested on a purchase order were successfully ordered and others were not, with messages on items that were not.