Functional Ack - 997

Question

Hi,
Here is a scenario,
B2B is configured to send functional acknowledgement automatically. The Exchange Protocal being used is EDI X12 over generic exchange. Few of our customers require 997s for POs(850) Invoices(810) and ASNs(856).
There is an element called "Funcitonal Identifier Code" which has to be populated in GS-01 and AK1-01
Now the problem is:
1. This element is not getting populated in AK1-01.
2. Though this gets populated, the requirement is that this value is different from the one in GS-01. In GS-01 now its FA, and the value in AK1-01 should be PO.
Please let me know if any settings have to be made to get this AK1-01. I kno w that we can set the value in Document Definition parameters for GS01.
Thanks,
Phani

Answer 1

Hello Phani,
Interesting question. Ideally AK1 is used to respond to the functional group header and to start the acknowledgement for a functional group. There shall be one AK1 segment for the functional group that is being acknowledged. This is how
it should work.
1. The incoming business document has one Functional Identifier in the Group which is Code identifying a group of application related transaction sets. Ideally B2B gets this value from the business document and populate in the AK1-01 of
the Functional Acknowledgement. We have tested this in our environment using the default tutorial comes with the product.
2. If you still want to populate something different than the one in the incoming Business document- Functional Group Identifier code , even though it may not be a practical use case you can do this by generating the 997 in the Back end
application and have B2B to translate to EDI and post it to TP.
P.S GS-01 of the FA is not to do anything with AK1-01 of FA, where as AK1-01 of FA is same as GS-01 of Incoming business messages. A sample FA generated is as follows.
ISA~00~ ~00~ ~ZZ~Acme ~ZZ~GlobalChips ~071022~0933~U~00401~000001001~0~P~+'GS~FA~Acme~GlobalChips~20071022~0933~1001~X~004010'ST~997~1001'AK1~PO~1'AK2~850~0001'AK5~A'AK9~A~1~1~1'SE~6~1001'GE~1~1001'IEA~1~000001001'
HTH.
Rgds,Ramesh