Transportation Management System EIPs

The transportation management system (TMS) EIPs enable PeopleSoft Inventory to integrate with a third-party TMS in order to maximize space utilization of loads and thereby minimize the costs of shipping goods. The outbound TMS EIP (TMS Order Release EIP) is a service operation that sends demand information from MSRs and sales orders to the TMS where optimal loads are determined. The inbound TMS EIP receives load optimization data from a TMS and loads the data into PeopleSoft Inventory. This data includes the carriers, loads, and dates based on optimization rules that take place within the TMS. There are two inbound TMS Load Notification EIPs, an asynchronous inbound service operation (TMS_LOAD_NOTIFICATION) and a synchronous inbound service operation (TMS_LOAD_NOTIFICATION_REQ). The synchronous service operation provides a real-time update to PeopleSoft Inventory's production tables.

Setting Up the TMS EIPs

PeopleSoft delivers the service operations in PeopleSoft Integration Broker with a default status of Inactive. You must activate each service operation before attempting to send or receive data from a third-party source or another PeopleSoft system, such as CRM. To set up this service operation:

1. Set up within the PeopleSoft Inventory application.

   Use the Setup Fulfillment-Transportation Interface page to identify options used by the TMS_ORDER_RELEASE service operation.

2. Set up within PeopleSoft Integration Broker and Enterprise Components.

   Use the information in the table below and refer to the setup instructions in the PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management Integrations, "Implementing Integrations" topic, Setting Up Service Operations section.

Service Operation	Direction and Type	Handlers	Chunking Available?	Integrates With
TMS_ORDER_RELEASE	Outbound Asynchronous	ROUTERSENDHDLR	Yes	third-party system
TMS_LOAD_NOTIFICATION	Inbound Asynchronous	TmsLoadNotification	No	third-party system
TMS_LOAD_NOTIFICATION_REQ	Inbound Synchronous	REQUESTHDLR	No	third-party system

See the product documentation for PeopleTools: Integration Broker