Procurement Overview

Procurement V1.0 provides prebuilt templates that streamline synchronizing information related to procurement processes, such as inventory, purchase records, and vendor information, across Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and Customer Interaction Management (CIM) systems. This overview provides a brief description of each collaboration template in the Procurement group and a section about installing the Collaboration Capacity Pack.

Collaboration for BOM Manager

The Collaboration for BOM (bills of material) synchronizes new and updated BOM information across an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application, Customer Interaction Management (CIM) application, and a Supply Chain Management (SCM) application. This collaboration ensures that all BOM information is the same for the source and for the destination applications.

For detailed information on this collaboration, see BOMManager Collaboration Template.

Collaboration for Inventory Level Manager

The InventoryLevelManager collaboration synchronizes inventory-level information for a particular Inventory Type from one application to another. The collaboration is designed to capture a "snapshot" of the inventory level and synchronize the quantity across multiple systems periodically.

For detailed information on this collaboration, see InventoryLevelManager Collaboration Template.

Collaboration for Inventory Movement

The Collaboration for Inventory Movement sends inventory transactions ("goods movements"), from a Customer Interaction Management (CIM) application to an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application or between two ERP applications. This collaboration creates the inventory transaction in the destination application.

For detailed information on this collaboration, see InventoryMovement Collaboration Template.

Collaboration for Purchasing

The Collaboration for Purchasing synchronizes a material or stock request from a CIM application to an ERP application's purchasing documents. This collaboration facilitates the creation of a purchasing document in the destination ERP application. The Collaboration for Purchases can be configured to verify the existence of requisitioned items within the destination ERP application before it creates a purchasing document.

For detailed information on this collaboration, see Purchasing Collaboration Template.

Collaboration for Vendor Manager

The Collaboration for Vendor Manager consists of a set of collaboration templates that help maintain and manage consistent vendor information across the enterprise.

For detailed information on each collaboration template, click the name of the collaboration template in the first column of the table below.

Collaboration template Description
VendorPartnerSync Moves vendor partner data from one application to another.
VendorSync Specifies a common process for maintaining and synchronizing vendor information.
VendorPartnerWrapper Standard intermediate collaboration template for synchronizing vendor partner data.

Installing the Collaboration Capacity Pack

Procurement V1.0 is a component of the Collaboration Capacity Pack for WebSphere(R) Business Integration Server Express Plus. For information about installing collaborations, see the WebSphere Business Integration Server Express installation guide for Windows, for Linux, or for OS/400 located in the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Express Infocenter at the following site:

http://www.ibm.com/websphere/wbiserverexpress/infocenter

Capacity Packs can be installed and used only if you purchase IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Express Plus. Capacity Packs are not available with IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Express.

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