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Reconciliation in EDIFACT and EDI X12 outbound messages

With B2B Gateway, you can reconcile EDIFACT and EDI X12 outbound messages that are received or sent to partners. The reconciliation occurs with the acknowledgment for the outbound message received from the partners.

For the reconciliation to take place, at least one of the Request functional acknowledgement and Request technical acknowledgement fields on the Outbound tab must be selected. In EDI X12, both the fields are selected by default. In the EDIFACT outbound messaging, the Request functional acknowledgement field is selected by default.

If you don't want to reconcile the messages, you must clear both the fields. If the Request functional acknowledgement and Request technical acknowledgement fields are not selected, outbound event changes to Complete or Error. In such cases, when an acknowledgment message is received from the partner, the acknowledgment message is processed but the event displays a Warning status.

If one of the fields is selected, the event status for outbound files displays the Waiting for Acknowledgment status until the technical and functional acknowledgments are received and reconciled. If the acknowledgment was received, the status of the corresponding outbound event changes to Complete or Error based on the information in the acknowledgement message.

Based on the event ID or the sequence number specific to the event, you can identify the relevant outbound file that needs to be reconciled with the received acknowledgment.

The following image shows the Outbound tab with the Request functional acknowledgement and Request technical acknowledgement fields for EDIFACT: This is an image of the Outbound tab

The following image shows the Outbound tab with the Request functional acknowledgement and Request technical acknowledgement fields for EDI X12:

In the Events page, all the events for received acknowledgments will be marked with the inbound acknowledgment file icon as shown in the following image: This is an image of the Events tab.

The Type field in the Events page includes the Technical acknowledgment (CONTRL) and Functional acknowledgment (CONTRL) types that you can use to filter EDIFACT outbound messages.