Vendor Confirmation

In Purchasing, the term Confirmation is an umbrella term for various kinds of information provided by a vendor to a customer with regard to ordered goods.
Possible types of confirmation include the following:

• Order acknowledgments
• Loading or transport confirmations
• Shipping notifications. (Note that shipping notifications may also be referred to by a number of other names, including “advice (note)”, “advice of dispatch”, “ship notice”, and “advance(d) shipping notice (“ASN”)

A further form of confirmation frequently used in Purchasing is the Inbound Delivery which is created on the basis of an incoming shipping notification. The shipping notification represents a vendor’s confirmation to a purchasing organization of a delivery date for a certain quantity of ordered materials (or the date of performance of ordered services).

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It can be possible to enter incoming vendor confirmations manually. Alternatively, such confirmation can be received via EDI and processed automatically.
When working with vendor confirmations, the following options are available:

• It can be possible to enter the order acknowledgment number if it is simply wished to provide a basis for monitoring the receipt or non-receipt of acknowledgments.
• The confirmed quantities and delivery dates should be maintained if it is required to provide more detailed information in support of the purchasing, inventory management, and materials planning/control functions within the enterprise.

Understand more about Vendor Confirmations in this training manual.