Order Fulfillment Engine EIPs

In an integrated environment, the order fulfillment engine EIPs enable a third-party system to send requests to PeopleSoft Inventory that efficiently move orders to the desired fulfillment state in one step or create new materials stock requests. These EIPs are especially useful when dealing with a large number of orders. Data from external systems can be processed through the PeopleSoft Integration Broker using service operations. For example, this data can request to move material stock orders and sales orders from one fulfillment state to another. PeopleSoft delivers these asynchronous service operations that enable you to post data to the Integration Broker and receive a response indicating that the data has been received. For each active inbound asynchronous service operation defined in the system for the source node and message version, the Integration Broker places the data in staging tables. The data is then processed by the fulfillment engine using the Fulfillment Requests process. The delivered service operations for inventory demand fulfillment are:

• Inventory Create Stock Request, which enables you to create new materials stock requests or add a new demand line to an existing stock request. These orders are created in the Unfulfilled state.

• Inventory Reservation, which enables you to move orders from an Unfulfilled state to a Releasable state.

• Inventory Pick Confirm, which enables you to move orders from a Released state to the Confirmed state.

• Inventory Front End Shipping, which enables you to move orders from an Unfulfilled or Releasable state to a Shipped state. In addition, this service operation can be used to create new MSRs or new demand lines for existing stock requests in the Shipped state.

• Inventory Shipping, which enables you to move orders from an Unfulfilled, Releasable, or Confirmed state to a Shipped state. In addition, this service operation can be used to create new MSRs or new demand lines for existing stock requests in the Shipped state.