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Warehouse Administration and Providers

Much of the configuration for warehouses is done through the iAPPS Commerce admin user interface.  Go to Administration > Warehouses.

This initial screen lists Warehouses and basic information about them, such as Address; type of inventory management; and shipping coverage.  From here you can edit, disable or delete the warehouse information.

See "Creating or Editing a Warehouse in the Admin UI"

However, before setting up any warehouses, you must have Warehouse providers.

• If you are using the default providers, you can skip ahead for details on setting up the warehouses.  See "Creating or Editing a Warehouse in the Admin UI"

• If you need help in creating a custom Warehouse Provider, see the next section.

Warehouse providers

Warehouse providers allow your installation of iAPPS to communicate with the warehouse to deal with tasks such as inventory or restocking.  iAPPS Commerce now integrates out of the box with UPS fulfillment and global warehousing system, which can be accessed by choosing the default External Warehouse Provider.

Default providers that come standard are the:

• InternalWarehouseProvider (for manual inventory control)

• ExternalWarehouseProvider (default UPS/GWS provider and synchronized inventory control)

• DigitalWarehouseProvider

If you are you using out-of-the-box integration with GWS then all the messages are handled, formatted, send and received without any custom coding by the developer.

• If you do want a custom provider then a new provider will have to be written to override the current one, in the same manner that you would write a custom payment provider. 

• Based on what is needed for the integration, developers will need to coordinate their warehousing vendor and write the provider accordingly. These schemas are vast and complex and need to be discussed with the warehouse provider if custom business processes need to be implemented.

• If you are using a custom provider, then you should create it before creating any warehouses in the iAPPS Admin.

• Adding a custom provider can still be done for SaaS installations, but there will need to be additional digitally signed .dlls. 

If you using GWS you will need to set up accounts with UPS, a process which is outlined in the next section.  If you are using the default manual or digital provider, then no additional configuration is necessary, and you can move on to creating warehouses.