Shipping Using the Fulfillment Engine EIPs

Third-party systems can use the following inbound EIPs to send PeopleSoft fulfillment transaction requests that create or ship orders using the fulfillment engine:

• INVENTORY_FRONT_END_SHIPPING: This service operation creates a request to move existing material stock requests and sales orders from an Unfulfilled or Releasable state to a Shipped state. In addition, this service operation can be used to create new material stock requests or new demand lines for existing stock requests in the Shipped state.

• INVENTORY_SHIPPING: This service operation creates a request to move material stock orders and sales orders from an Unfulfilled, Releasable, or Confirmed state to a Shipped state. In addition, this service operation can be used to create new material stock requests or new demand lines for existing stock requests in the Shipped state.

These EIPs are especially useful when dealing with a large number of orders. PeopleSoft delivers these asynchronous service operations that enable you to post data to the Integration Broker and receive a response indicating the data has been received. These requests are placed in staging tables and then processed by the fulfillment engine using the Fulfillment Requests process.