Checking for New Order Acknowledgements

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Vehicle Order Acknowledgements

Every night Ford generates a snapshot of all private and commercial vehicles that are on order for a given dealer, which is called the VISTA/OTD feed. Once the dealer has registered for inclusion in the programme (co-ordinated by the account manager), the data is published via the CDS network, and is extracted as part of the established BCM daily upload mechanism. The file contains vehicle configuration data and consignment information for each order. The data contained within this file is known as vehicle acknowledgements.

You should check for such data each working day.

To check for new order acknowledgements:

From the Vehicle Order Acknowledgements menu select the Process acknowledgements option and the VS Company if you are prompted for one, and click OK.

A Toggle dealer codes menu is displayed.
Select the appropriate dealer code or codes and click OK.

The Vehicle Order Acknowledgements form is displayed.

Note: It may be that the grid is populated with lines representing unprocessed records from previous raw data files loaded. Loading a new file adds to the unprocessed list. Therefore, the raw data file named in the File box does not necessarily correspond with all the records in the Acknowledgements grid.
Check that the File box lists the correct source file and click the Load button.

Tip: To change the File from the default, enter the new directory path, click the Ellipsis button , or select File > Retrieve acknowledgements... from the menu bar to pick from a list of available acknowledgement files. A copy of the last file processed has the suffix old.

Autoline accesses the file, the Progress bar indicating how much of it has been read as an approximate proportion of the whole. On completion, an Information dialog displays the following message:

Acknowledgement file loaded
Click the Information dialog's OK button.

You are returned to the Vehicle Order Acknowledgements form, the grid listing unprocessed acknowledgement records (indicated by the Unprocessed option button being selected).