Terminology

These terms are used throughout the Oracle Fusion Cloud Transportation and Global Trade Management playbook.

Term	Definition
OTM	Oracle Fusion Cloud Transportation Management. The main product. References to OTM also imply GTM. OTM or OTM/GTM are used to identify the entire product suite.
GTM	Oracle Fusion Cloud Global Trade Management. Used to differentiate content that's exclusive to GTM and not in the main OTM product.
Business Object Family - Order Release	A business object that represents the part of a sales order that's ready for transport. It's defined with a required Order Release Lines child object and optional child objects like LPN Packed Details, Special Services, and Remarks.
Business Object - Lifetime Events	Published by OTM to a registered external system. These external systems can be defined to use Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). Note: OIC might require additional licensing.
Workflow Agents	Automation agents in OTM similar to the Order Management Orchestration process. They provide a flexible and extensible framework for orchestrating order releases. Customers can define various predefined tasks in the process. During the agent process the user can define an integration task to be performed when a business object triggers a lifetime event. For example, when a planned shipment is accepted by the carrier the planned shipment integration payload is sent to Oracle Fusion Warehouse Management.