Facts in Sterling Warehouse Management System

A Fact is an attribute that is used by an API or an agent in IBM® Sterling Warehouse Management System to identify which colony to connect to and retrieve data from. For example, if information is required about a specific order, Facts enable the Metadata schema to be used as a lookup to determine which Transaction schema to connect to.

Following are the types of Facts in Sterling Warehouse Management System:

If none of the facts can identify a colony, the DEFAULT colony is used for accessing the data.