Product Inquiry/Advice EDI 846 Report overview
Function acronym: ICRAI
Use this report to generate outbound EDI 846 Inventory Inquiry/Advice documents. The EDI 846 Inventory Inquiry/Advice communicates materials status and availability to your vendors.
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.
You can generate flat files or ION BODs. In CloudSuite Distribution, you must use the ION 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.
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 IInfor Distribution SX.e Setup and Administration Guide for EDI.