The purpose of the ChangeAcknowledgeRecoverWIP is to notify a Manufacturing Application of the creation of usable production materials from material previously considered to be unsuitable for production use. This is most often likely to represent a return to production of scrap material. The business environments most likely to require this capability are any type of manufacturing scenario.

This BOD communicates what is being recovered, the quantity being recovered, and the processing step at which the recovered material is to re-enter the production process, along with the time at which this event occurred.