The purpose of the AcknowledgePersonnel is to enable the synchronization of employee data that exists on separate data bases between manufacturing and human resource applications. The ProcessPersonnel allows the adding of new employees and their relevant data as well as the modification of previously established employees. The ProcessPersonnel is used to facilitate the maintenance of human resource data in a manufacturing work force planning module. This enables the workforce planning module to use current personnel information when creating finite production schedules. The ProcessPersonnel can also be used by a project accounting application or a work order management application to assign qualified personnel or to perform resource planning. Is where the information that the BOD message carries is provided, in this case ProcessPersonnel. The information consists of a Verb and one or more Nouns. The verb (Process) indicates the action to be performed on the Noun (Personnel).