Integrate Billing Activity Reporting Engine with External Systems

About this task

The IBM® Sterling Warehouse Management System Billing Activity Reporting Engine can be integrated with an external system, such as an Accounts Receivable (AR) system. IBM Sterling Warehouse Management System provides the external system with the list of all billing activities, along with the associated code, references, and the units of work. The external system stores the cost of a unit for each billing activity and bills the clients appropriately, at the end of the accounting period. The accounting period may be weekly, fortnightly, or monthly.

To integrate with external systems:

Procedure

  1. Add or Edit the following properties in the <YANTRA_HOME>/Application/Foundation/resources/yfs.properties file:
    1. Set YNWAREWorkingDir to the directory that stores temporary files, if any, during the Billing Activity Reporting Engine upload process.
    2. Set YNWAREUploadDir to the directory that stores files uploaded to the Billing Activity Reporting Engine record.
  2. Update the IBM Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation runtime. For more information about this, see the Installing topic.
  3. Run the UPLOAD_ARE agent available in the YNW_UPLOAD_ARE.2001.ex transaction.