Working with PO’s in B2B

1. Working with PO’s in B2B Instructor: Anthony Borquez

2. Objectives • Explain B2B Order Processing Pipelines and Commerce Interchange Pipelines • Describe the stages in the Transmit Pipeline element of the CIP • Create and Transmit a Purchase Order

3. B2B Order Processing Pipelines • Corporate Purchasing Plan Pipeline • Computes PO Total • Discounts, taxes, shipping, etc. • Corporate Purchasing Submit • Validates, transfers, writes PO Reqs to db

4. Corporate Purchase Plan Pipeline • What is the difference between Order Processing Pipelines and Plan Pipelines? • Generating Purchase Orders • Plan & Submit Pipeline working together • In B2B, Purchasing Plan is used to compute the PO Total

5. 14 stages in Corporate Purchasing Plan Pipeline • Requisition Item Info • Supplier Info • Buyer Info • Req. Initialization • Req Check • Req Item Price • Req. Item Adjust Price • Req Adjust Price • Req. Subtotal • Shipping • Handling • Tax • Req. Total • Inventory

6. Corporate Purchasing Submit Pipeline • Validates PO Req (from Purchasing Plan Pipeline), creates PO, submits to e-Partner • Pipeline Components typically write to db • MTS can be used to maintain/store components • Corporate Purch. Submit template: CorpPurchaseSubmit.pct • 1st stage – PO Validate • 2nd stage – Submit Stage (component not included with Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition)

7. Purchase Order Submit Stage • Execute Preocess • Make PO • PipetoPipe Transfer • POtoFile • SaveReceipt • SendSMTP • SQLItem • SQLITemADO • SQLOrder • SQLOrderADO

8. Generating a Purchase Order • Template File Name • Script Language for the Template • Output Property Name • Child Object Name • Use Child Object

9. Source Field Name File Name File named in field Temporary file, name saved in field Writing a purchase order to file

10. Commerce Interchange Pipeline • CIP can be configured to transmit or receive business objects • CIP supports multiple b2b trading and communication scenarios, including PO, Supply-chain purchasing, order status • CIP interoperates with existing transport systems such as email and HTTP, DCOM, MSMQ • CIP is independent of both the data format and data transport. Good for 3rd party vendor compatibility.

11. Stages in a Transmit Pipeline • Map Stage • Add Header Stage • Digitally Sign Stage • Encrypt Stage • Audit Stage • Transport Stage

12. Steps to Create & Transmit a PO • Create the Corporate Purchasing Plan Pipeline • Create the Corporate Purchasing Submit Pipeline • MakePO: Generates a purchase Order • POtoFILE: Writes a PO to a file • Scriptor: • Creates a transacted pipeline and loads the pipeline config file • Creates a transport directory • Invokes the Execute Method • Modify the code to invoke Corporate Purchasing Submit