When an EDI vendor ships an order to you, they can send an 856 Advance Ship Notice through EDI. Use this document to review the items on the shipment before the invoice arrives. The 856 attempts to create a vendor ship notice generation on the referenced purchase order. The 856 can also update the purchase order by transferring quantities from open generations to a newly created vendor ship generation.
A vendor can ship multiple purchase orders in a container and multiple containers in a pallet, in which case an 856 Advance Ship Notice can include the pallet and container bar codes. When you scan the bar code in RF Receiving, the system changes the status of the associated purchase order to “In Process.”
Note: Users must be assigned the EDI.IN.REVIEW authorization key to access the review queue.
Before the system can receive an 856, set up the system as follows:
Create a trading partner profile for which an 856 inbound document is defined.
Assign the vendor from whom you are receiving the 856 to this profile.
The following topics explain how to handle inbound 856s:
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