Process: Request inventory updates

 

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Objective

Request message to obtain inventory status for specified products from an external fulfillment system

 

Description

Distributor inventory levels are maintained in the Demand Chain Hub in order to be able to create inventory reports which provide a snapshot view of the current inventory totals held by the distributors. Product inventory requests can be sent to distributors from the Demand Chain Hub.

Each distributor may have multiple fulfillment locations represented as fulfillment centers in the proxy stores. Information about inventory levels for each product available at the fulfillment center is stored in the RECEIPT table. Inventory is being updated by creating inventory adjustments for an existing receipt record or creating a new receipt record if one does not exist for a given product and fulfillment center.

 

Features

Inventory update

 

Customization

Integration with back-end systems for inventory level feeds

 

Edition

Professional, Enterprise

 

Subprocesses

 

Tasks

Task Description Role
Accept batch availability request (external)

An external task executed by the distributor that involves accepting the availability request.

 Distributor
Create availability response (external)

An external task executed by the distributor that creates a response to the inventory availability request. A XML document is created that indicates the inventory quantitty for the corresponding item in the request.

 Distributor
Request inventory updates

Create a request for inventory for each catalog entry passed as a parameter to the command. The default implementation determines the user credentials based on the store and the customer number and business partner grouping from the organization. A XML document representing the request is created and sent to the distributor.

If the store has the Referral Interface Terms and Conditions (TC) defined by the default contract, transmit the inventory level request by calling the Referral Interface batch availability request method. The following information is specified for each product in the request:

  • The member identifier and part number of the specified item.
  • The external UOM code mapped from the quantity unit of the base item of the specified item
System
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.

 System

 

Business artifacts

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