The purpose of the AcknowledgeMergeWIP BOD is to notify a Manufacturing Application of the creation of a single production lot from multiple production lots of a product being made on a production order. The business environment most likely to require this capability is a lot based discrete manufacturing scenario.

This BOD communicates the originating lots, the resulting lot, lot quantities, and the processing step at which this event occurred, along with the time at which this event occurred.