Functional Acknowledgement

A specific EDIThe use of EDI technology in logistics h... More Transaction SetCommonly used business transactions (e.g., purchas... (997) sent by the recipient of an EDI messageThe EDIFACT term for a transaction set. A message ... to confirm the receipt of data but with no indication as to the recipient application’s response to the message. The FA*See Functional Acknowledgement (FA) will confirm that the message contained the correct number of lines, etc., via control summaries, but does not report on the validity of the data.