EANCOM® 2002 S4 Part II
APERAK Application error and acknowledgement message
6. Examples

Example 1

The following is an example of an APERAK message being sent to acknowlegde the order number 652. The ORDERS message was sent on the 25th of August. The parties who exchanged the ORDERS message are the buyer with GLN 5412345000013 and the supplier with GLN 4012345500004.

UNH+ME00001+APERAK:D:01B:UN:EAN003'    Message header
BGM+305+10012+6' Application Error and Ackowledgement number is 10012.
DTM+137:200208301200:203' The Application Error and Ackowledgement message was created at 12:00 on the 30th of August 2002.
RFF+ON:652' The message being acknowlegded is order number 652.
DTM+171+20020825:102' The message being acknowledged was sent on the 25th of August 2002.
NAD+BY+5412345000013::9' Buyer identified in the ORDERS message.
NAD+SU+4012345500004::9' Supplier identified in the ORDERS message.
UNT+8+ME00001' Total number of segments in the message equals 8.

Example 2

The following is an example of an APERAK message being sent to report an error encountered in invoice number 2744. The INVOIC message was sent at 11:00 on the 23rd of August. The parties who exchanged the INVOIC message are the buyer with GLN 5412345000013 and the supplier with GLN 4012345500004.

UNH+MD00001+APERAK:D:01B:UN:EAN003'    Message header
BGM+305+10015+27' Application Error and Acknowledgement number is 10015.
DTM+137:200208231200:203' The Application Error and Acknowledgement message was created at 12:00 on the 23th of August 2002.
RFF+IV:2744' The message being acknowlegded is invoice number 2744.
DTM+171+200208231100:203' The message being acknowledged was sent at 11:00 on the 23rd of August 2002.
NAD+BY+5412345000013::9' Buyer identified in the INVOIC message.
NAD+SU+4012345500004::9' Supplier identified in the INVOIC message.
ERC+186::92' The buyer reports a duplicate invoice number using the bilaterally agreed code 186.
UNT+9+ME00001' Total number of segments in the message equals 9.

Note:
The EDI interchange will include the UNB..UNZ segments and, if applicable, the UNG..UNE segments. (See part 1 section 5.7).

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