How The Bea Weblogic Adapter For Manugistics Works; How Services In The Bea Weblogic Adapter For Manugistics Work - BEA WebLogic User Manual

How the BEA WebLogic Adapter for
Manugistics Works
The BEA WebLogic Adapter for Manugistics is integrated with the Application
Integration (AI) component inside of WebLogic Integration. The adapter provides
services and events for the Manugistics supply chain management solutions.
Manugistics NetWORKS provides forecasting solutions that aids in predicting future
customer demand, alerting of potential supply problems, finding patterns undetected
in demand and helping to manage inventory planning to create time-phased inventory
strategies.
The BEA WebLogic Adapter for Manugistics NetWORKS supports import into and
export from the Manugistics universal data model (UDM), which is a database that
serves as a central storage point for all supply chain storage and optimization data. The
adapter interfaces with the UDM through the Manugistics Manuba batch process.
Manugistics recommends import into and export from the Manugistics database using
the Manuba process to ensure data integrity.
How Services in the BEA WebLogic Adapter for
Manugistics Work
Services configured in the BEA WebLogic Adapter for Manugistics allow you to use
data from order processing, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and enterprise-wide
data warehouse systems to update the Manugistics UDM. Relevant data for
Manugistics includes order and sales information, purchase orders, inventory balances,
and forecasts usually available in the external systems.The adapter uses the
Manugistics Manuba process to update the Manugistics database. The following
illustration depicts the service architecture.

How the BEA WebLogic Adapter for Manugistics Works

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