Working with PO’s in B2B Instructor: Anthony Borquez

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

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

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

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

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 1 st stage – PO Validate 2 nd stage – Submit Stage (component not included with Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition)

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

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

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

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 and HTTP, DCOM, MSMQ CIP is independent of both the data format and data transport. Good for 3 rd party vendor compatibility.

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

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