Process

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General Process Description

A process is the link between entities on our platform. Every order, pick job, handover job etc. references to one process and every process keeps the ids of his entities. Furthermore, the process houses the different status of the different domains, modules and entities. The detailed process documentation can be found in our Swagger documentation.

Important note

The expression domain for the fields in the process class are not correct. Correct is module instead of domain. This will be fixed in the future.

Some fields of the process class:

{
    "id": "111-222-333",
    // ...
    "pickJobRefs": [],
    "handoverJobRefs": [],
    // ...
    "status": "CREATED",
    "domsStatus": "CREATED",
    "returnStatus": "NOT_AVAILABLE",
    "operativeStatus": "CREATED",
    "domainStatuses": [
        "PICKING": "CREATED",
        // ...
    ],
    "lastDomainEntityStatuses": [
        {
            "domain": "PICKJOB",
            "status": "CREATED",
            "entityId": "123456789"
        },
        // ...
    ]
    // ...
}

Process Statuses Calculation Flow

The different status of the process are calculated dependent on their predecessors. The start status are the lastDomainEntityStatuses (at the bottom in the image), with this the domainStatuses are calculated. domsStatus and operativeStatus are calculated from the domainStatuses. The final overall status based on domsStatus and operativeStatus.

Description of Different Status

Preface

Our platform contains different domains and modules. Every domain has multiple modules and every module contains entities like a PickJob in the PICKING module or a RoutingPlan in the ROUTING module.

For the different Process-Status-Calculation only the DOMS and LOCAL OPERATIONS modules are taken into account.

lastDomainEntityStatuses

Contains only the last status of every entity. An entity (e.g. RoutingPlan, PickJob or HandoverJob) status change in a module (e.g. PACKING or ORDER), will be update the entry of the corresponding entity in this list.

Example JSON:

"lastDomainEntityStatuses": [
    {
        "domain": "ROUTING_PLAN",
        "status": "FINISHED",
        "entityId": "ROUTING-A-0000-1111"
    }, {
        "domain": "ROUTING_PLAN",
        "status": "FINISHED",
        "entityId": "ROUTING-B-0000-1111"
    }, {
        "domain": "PICKJOB",
        "status": "CREATED",
        "entityId": "PICK-A-2222-3333"
    },
    // ...
]

Because the noticed status in lastDomainEntityStatuses must be work with all entities from different modules, this saved status are NOT the original status that is defined in the module. The original status is mapped into one, which can be used across all modules.

The overall status enum type is called DomainStatus and can be found in our Swagger documentation.

domainStatuses

Contains module clean statuses that will be calculated from the module entities from the lastDomainEntityStatuses. For example we have ONE status for PICKING or SHIPPING.

Example JSON:

"domainStatuses": [
    "ORDER": "FINISHED",
    "ROUTING_PLAN": "FINISHED",
    "PICKING": "CREATED",
    // ...
]

The status enum type is the same like in lastDomainEntityStatuses, DomainStatus and can be found in our Swagger documentation.

domsStatus & operativeStatus

Each of this two statuses contains a clear domain status. For the calculation of this two statuses, the associated module statuses from the domainStatuses list are taken.

The statuses uses an enum type that is called ProcessStatus and can be found in our Swagger documentation.

status

This is the overall status and it will be calculated with the two statuses domsStatus and operativeStatus.

Is uses the same enum type ProcessStatus like the two predecessor statuses. It can be found in our Swagger documentation.

returnStatus

This status tracks the progress of returns associated with this order. As long as no returns are in progress, this status will be NOT_AVAILABLE. Contrary to other process status like domsStatus or operativeStatus, the returnStatus does not influence the overall status of the process. This is because an order is counted as complete once all its items are shipped. If later on a return is issued, the progress should not be reopened. The process will remain CLOSED, only its returns will be IN_PROGRESS.