In response to an 846 Inventory Advice document from an EDI customer, the system creates a consignment sales order with an order status of Invoice and print status P. The system places the order in the Remote Order Entry Review Queue and sends a message to the user responsible for reviewing incoming orders.
This process allows the system to relieve the consignment inventory. The system does not send an invoice. The invoice only bills for usage to relieve consignment inventory at the appropriate location.
Before the system can process an 846, set up the system as follows:
Set the Incoming EDI 846 Status control maintenance record to P for Preview.
All the ship-tos in the 846 must be set up in the receive code table in the trading partner group profile.
For all the ship-tos that an 846 uses, select the Consignment Inventory? check box field on the Additional Customer Information window. Otherwise, the system sends the document to the EDI Error Queue with the following message: To EDI Administration: EDI Customer : <Customer Name> - Consignment Flag Not Set For 846 -ECIERR - EDI ERROR#5021
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