SPEC 5596 - Email notifications on incoming POs (850)

Date Released: March 2018

Modules: Purchasing, EDI

Description:When the system receives an incoming PO (850) and does the EDI edit, the system emails, out to a list of email addresses, the content of the PO, and an indication if accepted or rejected for what reason.

Reason: Operational efficiency. Supplier relations and confidence in EDI POs.

This enhancements is for EDI (GENTRAN) only. Not CMS.

SET 5 Table XXXMISCSET (where XXX is the three character Partner ID)

  • The From value INB850EMAIL has been added.
  • The To value should be Yes to trigger the email process

  • When set to Yes the corresponding SET 308 XXX_POMAIL entry is created (see below).

General Event Email Address - SET 308

This table houses the system created event triggers.

The Event XXX_POMAIL has been added; if the INB850EMAILoption in the SET 5 XXXMISCSET table is activated.

Select it with an "X" to enter a Default Message and Email Address.

The Default Message and Recipient Email Addresses have to be manually entered for every Partner ID (the XXX at the beginning of the MISCSET Table.

The accept and reject details are included below the email text.