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Chapter 1 EDIFACT Overview : Message Acknowledgment

Message Acknowledgment
When EDIFACT documents are exchanged between trading partners, an acknowledgment of the receipt and syntactical validation of the document can be returned to the sender of the document.
When exchanging EDIFACT documents, the CONTRL message is used to syntactically acknowledge or reject, with error indication, an interchange, group or message received from a trading partner.
Note that CONTRL is the only message for acknowledgment in EDIFACT. In contrast, in ANSI X12 there are two messages used for acknowledgment: TA1 and 997/999 ACK.
Use of a CONTRL message for acknowledging receipt of an interchange, group or message is not required in EDIFACT. The use of CONTRL is by trading partner agreement.

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