Configuring the Billing Activity Reporting Engine for Outbound Activity

The IBM® Sterling Warehouse Management System enables you to control the Outbound process with the information that is available in the warehouse. It also enables you to record the activities performed during the Outbound process.

This chapter lists the billing activities that are recorded for the Outbound 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 Outbound process, the billing activities are recorded when the shipments are shipped from the warehouse.

Pipeline

If you have enabled the Billing Activity Reporting Engine in your application, the shipment status changes to Waiting for ARE Process when the shipment completes. 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 Shipment ARE transaction. This transaction computes the billing activities for the shipment and inserts the activities into the YNW_ARE_Activity_Header and YNW_ARE_Activity_Detail tables. It then changes the shipment status to ARE Processing Complete.

The following figure illustrates the Outbound Shipment Pipeline.

Figure 1. Outbound Shipment Pipeline

Transactions

When the shipment is completed, the shipment enters the Waiting for ARE Process status. The Process Shipment ARE transaction then picks up these shipments, records the billing activities, and moves them to the ARE Processing Complete status.

Agents

The PROCESS_SHIPMENT_ARE agent invokes the YNWAREShipment service. This service records the billing activities for the Outbound process.

Services

The YNWAREShipment service records the billing activities performed in the Outbound Process.