Order Management subsystem
The Order Management subsystem is a component of the WebSphere Commerce Server that provides shopping carts, order capture, order fulfillment, inventory, and payment function support.
Order management is broadly divided into:
- Order capture
- Order capture provides functionality such as sales quotes and shopping carts and order submission. There are a number of ways to create shopcarts and submit orders, as described in the order mechanisms section.
- Order processing
- Order processing is responsible for the overall coordination of inventory allocation, payment processing, releasing the order to fulfillment and tracking order status.
- Inventory processing
- WebSphere Commerce supports four inventory systems: Available to promise (ATP), and non-ATP, No inventory, and external inventory. The interface to inventory is encapsulated by a single inventory task command, which in turn invokes either ATP or non-ATP task commands.
- Payment processing
- WebSphere Commerce Payments supports the use of payment plug-ins for offline or online payment processing.
In addition, the subsystem deals with order management capabilities such as:
- quick order or buy
- scheduled orders
- multiple pending orders
- reorders
- order splits or backorders
- future orders