Process: Process backorders

 

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Objective

Process the current backlog of backorders by attempting to allocate available inventory and, if successful, processing the order.

 

Description

This process is for ATP inventory only. This process is invoked by the WebSphere Commerce scheduler. It attempts to allocate inventory to backordered items for a given store.

 

Features

 

Customization

 

Edition

Professional, Enterprise

 

Subprocesses

 

Tasks

Task Description Role
Re-prepare order

Recalculate shipping charges and taxes, and lock the order. A locked order means that it has been prepared and is used to indicate whether or not an order has changed.

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Request payment authorization

Request a payment authorization. It perform the tasks necessary to obtain payment authorization for an order being processed. Depending on the payment type and the business policy for the payment type, varying actions will be performed.

Input to the process is an order requiring payment authorization. If successful, output is an order with the payment authorized.

If payment authorization has already been requested (this will be the case for processing a backorder or and order for which remote fulfillment failed), then check the existing payment status and update the order appropriately.

If the payment AVS address verification failed, the order will be blocked.

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Time to execute

This process is initiated as a scheduled task. A scheduled task starts asynchronously when the scheduler has determined that it is time to execute.

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Validate and recalculate

It will do the following:

1. It validates the address. It checks to see if the billing address is allowed in the contract.

2. It may recalculate the price if the price is expired.

3. It will allocate the inventory if the inventory is not allocated.

4. If the purchase order number is used for the order, the spending limits will be checked and updated. The spending limits will also be updated if it is specified in the contract.

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Business artifacts

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