As the receiver you use the confirmation functions to inform the data pool about what you have done with the received data. You do this using a Catalog Item Confirmation message. For example, as a retailer, your report to the manufacturer that you have accepted the data for a particular product.

You use this transaction (WDGS_CONFIRM) when you want to send confirmations without proposals for error correction. If you want to use error recording in enhanced price catalog editing, and also send proposals for error correction, then choose transaction Sending Trade Item Errors and Statuses (WGDS_CONF_MSG_MNGR).

You use the confirmation status (see below) to document the processing status of the data in your system. The initial status is Unknown. Certain changes to the processing status in price catalog processing update the confirmation status of an item. If the status has changed to Checked, Forwarded, Excluded, or Check, you can send a confirmation message for the relevant items to the data pool.

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Possible Confirmation Statuses

To send a confirmation to the data pool, you use a report that you can trigger directly or run in the background. You can also use a monitor to display and edit changed catalog items. The monitor informs you of the status of each catalog item in the data pool that you have subscribed to. You can also use the monitor to track the status of all confirmation messages and to send confirmations. You identify the catalog items by the Global Location Number (GLN) of the vendor, the target market (country and subdivision), and the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN).

When the confirmation is accepted by the receiver, the receiver sends a response message. The system then deletes all the data concerned from the confirmation table.