External System Shipping Integration Processes

You can communicate requests to ship orders to execution partners.

Use the following processes to interface with external systems:

• Generate Shipment Requests

• Perform Shipping Transactions

• Confirm Shipment Process

Generate Shipment Request

Use this process to schedule sending the shipment lines to external systems. This is a manual process to reserve material and send shipment requests. This process skips the regular processing steps and handles regular organizations, as well as those that are controlled by external systems.

Perform Shipping Transactions

This process handles the shipment confirmation interface records. It processes the pending transaction records received into the open interface from both regular and externally controlled organizations.

The Perform Shipping Transactions process validates the data on the transaction records before processing them. It records any errors from the validation step and leaves the transaction records in the open interfaces. You can view, edit, resolve errors, and reprocess the interface records with errors.

Confirm Shipment Process

This process confirms the shipment, prints shipping documents, sends the shipment advice, and initiates the inventory update process.