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Originally Posted by bmj_23  Hi - I have implemented the two scenarios that you mention (Drop/unassign order releases from Shipments in OTM and Add/assign orders to the Shipments in OTM) using the ActualShipment XML.
Basically, once shipments are planned, a PlannedShipment XML is sent to the clients ERP system and once the goods are shipped, an ActualShipment XML is sent back from the ERP to OTM to update the number of ship units that were actually shipped along with the actual weights of those shipments.
To do this integration design correctly required a pretty good understanding of the shipment ship unit database layout, how that relates to order releases / order release lines / order bases and shipments as well as the various transaction codes that are available to update / delete / add / modify shipment ship units on existing shipments using the ActualShipment XML API.
I understand that you may have 400+ shipment ship units - but do you really need that many ? Appreciate its quite late in your design / integration, but is that not going to cause other performance issues with that many ship units ?
If you do really can have 400+ ship units on a shipment, I think you may face other issues in your design...dont forget, you can have either 1 ship unit with a count of 400, or 400 ship units with a count of 1...big difference though in the design and you want to make sure you have got that right.
Either way, the business scenarios you have outlined have been implemented before but its a little more complex (unfortunately) than having a "unassign order release" action available via integration.
Get some advice from an experienced OTM technical consultant that has done that before would be my advice. We didnt do that in our project and it introduced considerable delays. |
Thank You for your reply. It was very helpful. Do you have any samples that can give me a quick start on this ? Oracle is escalating my request to see if they can provide a new API for this.
It is too late in the game for me to get into number of shipunits as this is driven by EBS Shipping Execution and OTM. The BPEL/middleware layer does not make decisions pertaining to this. What I want to do is integrate this in the best way I can through Fusion. Then if there are problems while testing like performance, I will have more of a justification to call for going over the design and even calling for changing some aspects.
Any samples, documents,links will GREATLY help and be greatly APPRECIATED.
Please respond as quickly as you can as I am on a very tight deadline here.
Thank You
Krishna