EANCOM® 2002 S4 Part II
PROINQ Product inquiry message
1. Introduction

Status

MESSAGE TYPE : PROINQ
REFERENCE DIRECTORY : D.01B
EANCOM® SUBSET VERSION : 004

Definition

A message enabling the sender to inquire on a product or group of products from a master product catalogue according to criteria defined in the message.

Principles

The message usually relates to a manufacturer and/or supplier of goods and a buyer, or their respective agents.

The buyer may specify in the message the attributes of a product or group of products for which it is interested in receiving additional information. This will allow a manufacturer and/or supplier to send the buyer only information for those products the buyer is specifically interested in rather than the entire product catalogue.

The Product Inquiry message may request information in order to:

The response to a Product Inquiry message will be either a Price/Sales Catalogue (PRICAT) or Product Data (PRODAT) message, or both.

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