About FA Reconciliation Functional acknowledgements (FAs) are standard EDI documents. For the X12 standard, FAs are 997s; for the EDIFACT standard, FAs are CONTRL. When your company sends EDI documents to your trading partners, your trading partners can respond by sending acknowledgements back you. Acknowledgements report the receipt of the original document by your trading partners and the results of a syntactical analysis of the original document. “Inbound and Outbound Documents” on page 184 “FA Reconciliation Definition” on page 184 “Original Documents and Return Documents” on page 184 “Timeouts” on page 185 “Business Hours” on page 186 “Events” on page 186 “Alerts” on page 186 “Event Notification Configurations” on page 187 “Acknowledgement Status for Original Documents” on page 187
Functional acknowledgements (FAs) are standard EDI documents. For the X12 standard, FAs are 997s; for the EDIFACT standard, FAs are CONTRL.
When your company sends EDI documents to your trading partners, your trading partners can respond by sending acknowledgements back you. Acknowledgements report the receipt of the original document by your trading partners and the results of a syntactical analysis of the original document.
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