IBM sterling commerce tutorial

What is a hub?

• Hub is the center of the organization. there can be only one hub for the entire business.

What is an enterprise?

• Enterprise are modeled as high as possible in organization structure. They define business rules, they control the business rules. Enterprise has highest priority ,follow different business rules, then they are configured as a separate Enterprise. Enterprises can inherit the default configuration from hub.

What are document types?

• Document type is used to carry the business rules throughout the workflow. An administrator can create a new document Type. 

          Process Type level attributes

                     Status inventory Types

                     Modification Types

                     Modification rules

                     Transactions

                     Transaction pick up status

                     Transaction drop status 

                     Events

What are the type of Order present in Sterling OMS?

• Sales Order 

                 Sales order is used to Sell items

• Planned Order

                 Planned Order is used to Plan the order that takes place in future.

• Return Order

                 Return Order is used to Return an item for the seller.

• Template Order

                 Template Order is used to Template an order that can be used to model the future order.

• Purchase Order

                 Purchase order is used to purchase an item from another business.

• Transfer Order?

                 Transfer order is used to transfer items from one organization to another organization.
                          Ware house to Distribution Center.
                          Warehouse to another warehouse
                          Distribution center to store.

• master order and Quote

                   Master order is used to ship an item in the timed sequence either from business to                                business or business to customer.
                  Quote is used to provide to quote to the sales opportunity.

• work Order?

                  Work order is used in two different contexts.

What is pipeline?

• A pipeline consists of statuses, conditions, transactions,events and actions. a document that goes through during fulfillment.

What are action and events?

• An action is a process or a program that is triggered by an event.
• Event occurs when an action is triggered.

What are User Exits?

• User exits are java interfaces that can be implemented to create custom logic components executes custom logic at run time.

What is Hold?

• Holding an Order until admin team not release. Specially for fraud order.

What Database Extension?

• If you are changing in the database table. Database extension detect and change all the places where it is using that table.