Process: Release to fulfillment

Flow

Legend

Release to fulfillment

Objective

Create releases for fulfillment.

Description

An order is ready to release to fulfillment when payment has been authorized and all order line items are allocated.

A release is a grouping of order line items on an order that are shipping to the same address, from the same fulfillment center, with the same carrier, at the same time. Conceptually, it groups together all items on the order that could conceivably be put in the same box. In addition, a catalog item can be configured to be "released separately." If this condition is true, then within any order this item will be in its own release. Release to fulfillment should only occur when all of the various components of an order (order line items, inventory, and payment) are simultaneously in the correct state.

Features

Customization

Edition

Professional, Business Edition

Subprocesses

Tasks

Task Description Role
Add items to Manufacturer order

Add the designated items to the shopping cart.

System
Release products

After the selections have been made and the fulfillment centers chosen, release the products to fulfillment.

Logistics Manager
Assign fulfillment center to items

Assign the selected fulfillment center to items to be released to fulfillment.

System
Look up accepted orders

Find orders that are eligible to be released.

The criteria is an order with payment information capture complete (C) and either at least one allocated item and the order is not ship as complete or the order is ship as complete and at least one item is not allocated or does not have a ship-to address.

System
Find orders to be released

Find orders that are ready to be released.

System
Select products to be released

Select products that are to be released to fulfillment.

Logistics Manager
Select fulfillment center for items

Select the fulfillment center for each product that is to be released to fulfillment. If the fulfillment center has a store associated with it, which would be the case for releasing to the MarketPlace, the item will be added to a shopping cart in the designated store.

Logistics Manager
Time to release orders for store

This task models the event that starts a scheduled command or process.

System

Business artifacts

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