1. Integrating with E-Business Suite Guide
  2. Overview

Overview

This document details Oracle E-Business Suite international trade management (ITM) – Oracle Global Trade Management (GTM) integration feature added for Oracle Global Trade Management (GTM). This feature includes support for out-of-the-box integration between Oracle E-Business Suite applications and Oracle Global Trade Management. The following flows are supported:

  • Party Synchronization
  • Item Synchronization
  • Order Compliance
  • Delivery Compliance

Oracle Global Trade Management needs to be registered with Oracle E-Business Suite ITM adapter as a trading partner. All flows use ITM for communicating with Oracle Global Trade Management. For Order, Delivery compliance, this solution can even communicate compliance status to Oracle E-Business Suite via Oracle XML Gateway. Configuration of Oracle E-Business Suite XML Gateway and ITM Adapter are out of scope for this document. Refer to the respective product documentation for more details.

Oracle E-Business Suite – Oracle Global Trade Management integration consists of an out-of-box, ready-to-use solution which is provided for communication and data transfer between Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Global Trade Management applications.Oracle E-Business Suite – Oracle Global Trade Management integration consists of an out-of-box, ready-to-use solution which is provided for communication and data transfer between Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Global Trade Management applications.

This integration does not require Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) or any other middleware set up for it to work. All you need to do is to set up Oracle Global Trade Management as a trading partner in the Oracle E-Business Suite components ITM Adapter and XML Gateway.

While the Oracle E-Business Suite configuration of ITM and XML Gateway are out of scope for this document, configuration that needs to be done in terms of Oracle Global Trade Management is explained in the configuration section.

As you can see from the figure above, the following flows are supported by this integration effort:

  • Party Synchronization: Using this flow, Oracle E-Business Suite contacts/parties can be sent into Oracle Global Trade Management and stored as Oracle Global Trade Management contacts.
  • Item Synchronization: Using this flow, Oracle E-Business Suite items can be sent into Oracle Global Trade Management and stored as Oracle Global Trade Management items.
  • Order Compliance: Using this flow:
    • Oracle E-Business Suite sales orders can be sent into Oracle Global Trade Management and stored as Oracle Global Trade Management trade transactions.
    • The compliance status of screened trade transactions can be sent back to Oracle E-Business Suite.
  • Delivery/Shipment Compliance: Using this flow
    • Oracle E-Business Suite deliveries can be sent into Oracle Global Trade Management and stored as Oracle Global Trade Management trade transactions.
    • The compliance status of screened trade transactions can be sent back to Oracle E-Business Suite.