EDIFACT CONTRL

The EDI CONTRL message is an EDIFACT EDI document that serves the purpose of acknowledging or rejecting, with error indication, a received interchange, functional group or message.

EDIFACT CONTRL message is used to:

• Acknowledge a received interchange, or EDI message
• Accept or reject a received interchange
• List any internal errors

When business partners receive an EDIFACT CONTRL message in response to a previously sent document, business partners only that document arrived and was processed by the recipient's EDI translator. It does not give any other information that the receiving trading partner agreed to the contents of the original transaction.

EDIFACT CONTRL Key Data

• Message reference number
• Interchange control number
• EDI standard version code
• Data segment & element note (to report segment errors)
• Transaction set & Functional group response trailer

Other EDIFACT transaction sets related to EDIFACT CONTRL are:

• EDI INVOIC - Invoice Message
• EDI ORDCHG - Purchase Order Change Request
• EDI DELFOR - Delivery Forecast Message
• EDI ORDRSP - Purchase Order Response
• EDI REQUOTE - Request for Quotation Message
• EDI QUOTES - Quote Message
• EDI ORDERS - Delivery Forecast Message
• EDI DESADV - Despatch Advice Message
• EDI DELJIT - Delivery just in time Message