Configuring the Billing Activity Reporting Engine for Value-Added Services Activity

Value-Added Services (VAS) are performed to meet customer demands. These can be activities performed on a product before the product is delivered to the customer or a provided service that is performed at the customer site.

VAS is performed in the warehouse on an ad-hoc basis. The IBM® Sterling Warehouse Management System Billing Activity Reporting Engine records kitting activities that are created for the purpose of completing the Order.

The different types of services include Kitting and Compliances services.

IBM Sterling Warehouse Management System enables you to record the billing activities performed during the VAS process.

This chapter lists the billing activities that are recorded for the VAS 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 VAS, the billing activities are recorded after the work order is confirmed in the warehouse.

Pipeline

If you have enabled the Billing Activity Reporting Engine in your application, when the work order is confirmed the status changes to Waiting for ARE Process. When the status changes to Waiting for ARE Process, a record is inserted into the Task Queue and this record is picked up by the Process Work Order ARE transaction. This transaction computes the activities for the confirmed work order and inserts the activities into the YNW_ARE_Activity_Header and YNW_ARE_Activity_Detail tables. It then changes the work order status to ARE Processing Complete.

The following figure illustrates the Work Order Pipeline.

Figure 1. Work Order Pipeline

Transactions

When the work order is completed, the work order enters the Waiting for ARE Process status. The Process Work Order ARE transaction then picks up these confirmed work orders, records the activities, and moves them to the ARE Processing Complete status.

Agents

The PROCESS_WORK_ORDER_ARE agent invokes the YNWAREWorkOrder service. This service records the activities for the Value-Added Services process.

Services

The YNWAREWorkOrder service records the activities performed in the Value-Added Services Process.