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WAWF Receiving Report

Shipments on defense contracts are generally required to be accompanied by a Receiving Report executed in Wide Area Workflow (WAWF). Many contracts require contract quality assurance (CQA) sign-off by a quality representative (QAR) to occur at source prior to shipment, while some may allow that to occur at destination. Acceptance of the shipment may occur at source or destination, depending on the contract. All of this is documented on the Receiving Report, which used to be a physical form (DD250), but now lives as an electronic transaction on the WAWF web site. Defense contractors may create their DD250s on the web site, or submit them as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transactions, such as those created by applications like MIL-Comply.

Combo Transaction

The WAWF Combo is a special transaction which combines acceptance and invoicing in the same transaction. It flows through WAWF and the payment systems in a different manner than the combination of Receiving Report and Invoice, and should not be confused with the idea of sending the two of those simultaneously. Invoice transactions sit in a pending status until the associated Receiving Report is accepted, and are discarded if that does not happen within ten days. Combos act differently and should be used when required by contract, but only then.