The IBM® Sterling Warehouse Management System enables you to control the Inbound process with information that is available in the warehouse. It also enables you to record the billing activities performed during the Inbound process.
This chapter lists the billing activities that are recorded for the Inbound 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 Inbound process, the billing activities are recorded when the shipments are received into the warehouse.
If you have enabled the Billing Activity Reporting Engine in your application, the receipt status changes to Waiting for ARE Process when the receipt 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 Receipt ARE transaction. This transaction computes the billing activities for the receipt and inserts the billing activities into the YNW_ARE_Activity_Header and YNW_ARE_Activity_Detail tables. It then changes the receipt status to ARE Processing Complete.
The following figure illustrates the Receiving Pipeline.
When the receipt is completed, the receipt enters the Waiting for ARE Process status. The Process Receipt ARE transaction then picks up these receipts, records the billing activities, and moves them to the ARE Processing Complete status.
The PROCESS_RECEIPT_ARE agent invokes the YNWAREReceipt service. This service records the billing activities for the Inbound process.
The YNWAREReceipt service records the billing activities performed in the Inbound Process.