MA531 Processing

We are about to begin processing 856 Transactions via GHX and running the MA531. Initial testing is good so far, but looking for any procedures people may have developed for error handling so I don't have to recreate the wheel as it were.

Also, I find the lack of information on what was successfully imported by the MA531 to be concerning. It only shows the errors, not those that were received and released without error.

We are doing 810s as well and the MA540 is nice, it shows you what matched and what didn't in detail.
I suspected the MA531 format to resemble the MA540 as far as content and I was dissappointed.
Anyone capturing that information in some other fashion?

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unknown

You can use PO58 to find receipts successfully created by EDI. Report wise I'm querying the recline table looking for user EDI or MA531. (No idea why, but both user IDs show up.)

moellerg

So, you actually have a Crystal report set up? Would you mind sharing?

CDR_Overview.pdf

eokoth

Here is something to test. It may not be an issue any more, but, worth exploring. If you receive an 856 with multiple sales orders for the same PO and there is an error for the first, it will leave the receiver unreleased. The next shipment/sales order for that PO will error "unreleased receivers exist". You may need a process to monitor so you don't have missing receipts.

unknown

If you are processing receipts via MA531, you would need to be checking MA53 regularly. Whenever a record cannot be processed, it will be written to MA53. You can make whatever corrections are necessary and then run MA531 using the "Database" option to process the records out of MA53. With the example above, once the first receiver has been released you can run MA531 against the database to process the second receipt.

unknown

Just a suggestion.
We have MA531 setup to run at night as a batch job with the processing option of "D".
Reviewing this report daily will list all the receipts with errors and its a fairly simple task to process them all in MA53 and fix them.
But a word of caution; we have found that some of the error messages are not exactly accurate, and we have opened a number of incidents with Infor to correct the messages. You may find that some of the error messages in MA531 are not as descriptive as you would like.

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