BEG01 contains a code that tells you the PO type:
00 = Original
06 = Confirmation
07 = Duplicate
Make sure your partner uses them. I've seen many trading partners that
ship every PO they get. They just don't check for duplicates. Could be
a real ugly problem, especially if you order by the
Jake Balfour, of Source Electronics, wrote: "I have numerous customers
that verbally call in an order, then follow up with the same order
through EDI. I can't ignore all duplicates in the system for there are
instances where the EDI order is just an order with the exact
characteristics as
A man after my own heart - use the response documents for the purpose
they were
created for!
I wasn't suggesting that anyone try and force their customer to do
anything. I though it might be nice if the customer who was sending an
850 as a confirmation to a verbally placed order would use the
