You can use the capabilities for promising.
As part of its
promising functions, Sterling Selling and
Fulfillment Foundation provides
the following capabilities:
- Inquiries about product availability. The product
availability inquiry function takes into consideration all the business
rules associated with the promising function and provides one or more
options for sourcing and possible shipment dates. Using the user interface,
you can inquire about product availability for a specific order. Using
the promising API (findInventory ()), which does
not require a pre-existing order, you can inquire about product availability
for a set of items.
- Scheduling an order or order line. Sterling Selling and
Fulfillment Foundation provides
APIs and transactions to schedule an order for shipping at an appropriate
time. The scheduling function determines the node and expected shipment
date and schedules a shipment against the same. The scheduling function
also reserves the inventory at the shipping node for the expected
shipment date.
- Creation of notifications and chained documents
to notify the nodes or suppliers at the appropriate time.