Creating store fulfillment assets (non-ATP)

After you have defined the fulfillment center or centers that will supply goods for your store, you must associate a fulfillment center to each product. That is, you must identify which fulfillment center will supply which of your products.

About this task

To create this relationship, add information to the INVENTORY table. Create this information in the format of XML files that can be loaded into the database using the loading utilities.

Notes:
  1. You must create store assets before you can associate a store with a fulfillment center. For more information about creating store assets, see Creating store data assets in an XML file. You must also create the catalog assets before you can create the store fulfillment assets.
  2. Create store fulfillment assets only if you implement non-ATP fulfillment. The INVENTORY table is not used by a store that includes the ATP functions.

To create the store fulfillment relationship using an XML file:

Procedure

  1. Create an XML file that follows the wcs.dtd. The DTD files are located in the following directory:
    • WC_installdir/xml/sar/
    • WebSphere Commerce Developerworkspace_dir/wc/xml/sar/
  2. Using the following example as your guide, create a store-fulfillment center relationship in the XML file, by adding information to the INVENTORY table.
    
<inventory
catentry_id="@catentry_item_id_furniture_loungechair_1_1"
quantity="101"
ffmcenter_id="&FFMCENTER_ID;"
store_id="&STOREENT_ID;"
quantitymeasure="C62"
inventoryflags="0"
/>
  3. Repeat step 2 for each catalog entry in your store.