Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation uses document types to carry information through a configured business process workflow. These documents are derived from base document types. A base document type defines the business documents that Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation handles, and defines a common storage structure for all derived document types.
The following base document types are defined in Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation:
Document types are specific business documents that are derived from a base document type. For example, document types such as Sales Order and Purchase Order are derived from the Order base document type.
For detailed information about document types, see Organization and participant modeling concepts.
To complete a life cycle, each document type has a set of different processes that it can go through. These processes are called process types. Every base document type has a defined set of process types in Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation.
Following are the process types defined in Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation (for the base document types):
Business rules such as payment collection rules and modification rules must be set up for each document type.