The IBM® Sterling Warehouse Management System enables you to control the Count process with the information that is available in the warehouse. It also enables you to record the billing activities performed during the count process, which can later be used to bill the enterprise.
This chapter lists the billing activities that are recorded for the Count process, along with their billing activity codes. This chapter also describes the time at which the billing activity is recorded, and the transactions, agents, and services used to record the billing activities.
For the Count process, the billing activities are recorded upon completion of the count request.
To complete a Count process, the user must perform the first level of count tasks. The Count process is completed when:
The count process is completed and activities are recorded for the billing activity
If you have enabled the Billing Activity Reporting Engine in your application, the count status changes to Count Request Completed - Waiting for ARE when the count completes. When the status changes to Count Request Completed - Waiting for ARE, a record gets inserted into the Task Queue and this record is picked up by the Process Count ARE transaction. This transaction computes the billing activities for the count and inserts the billing activities into the YNW_ARE_Activity_Header and YNW_ARE_Activity_Detail tables. It then changes the count status to ARE Processing Complete.
The following figure illustrates the Cycle Count Pipeline.
When the count is completed, the count enters the Count Request Completed - Waiting for ARE status. The Process Count ARE transaction then picks up these counts, records the billing activities, and moves them to the ARE Processing Complete status.
The PROCESS_COUNT_ARE agent invokes the YNWARECount service. This service records the billing activities for the Count process.
The YNWARECount service records the billing activities performed in the Count Process.