Order Status Inquiry

Based on the Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 format, the 870 can be used by the vendor to report the status of a purchase order(s) to the Trading Partner. The report may be generated by an Order Status Inquiry (869) by the Trading Partner or it may be generated by a prearrange schedules; status is reported from the vendor's perspective.
There may or may not be a one-to-one correlation between the Trading Partner's PO and the vendor's order. For example, if the vendor is reporting a PO that spans three vendor orders, there should be three order levels in the Order Status Report. In an import environment, this transaction set may be used by a consolidator or de-consolidator to update the projected shipment or delivery information.