EANCOM PART II		1997-07-01
OSTENQ	- Order Status Enquiry Message	VERSION 002

1. Introduction

Status

MESSAGE TYPE	: OSTENQ
REFERENCE DIRECTORY	: D.96A
EANCOM SUBSET VERSION	: 002

Definition

A message from a buyer or buyer's agent which requests a supplier or supplier's agent for information on the current status of a previously sent order(s).

Principles

This message is sent between one buyer (or agent) and one supplier (or agent) and may relate to:

one type of enquiry;
one or more purchase orders (ORDERS), cargo/goods handling and movement (HANMOV), or instruction to despatch (INSDES) messages.
one or more products on one or more orders.

The Order Status Enquiry message is a status zero EDIFACT message and therefore will not appear in any EDIFACT directory. The message is currently being developed within the EDIFACT process.

This subset is based on the content of the message available in June 1997 and contains only EDIFACT segments which appear in the D.96A directory.