IBM SG24-6320-00 Trading subsystem, Order subsystem, Merchandising subsystem, Marketing subsystem

6320ch_sum_of_changes.fm Draft Document for Review July 28, 2004 7:33 pm

2.3.3 Trading subsystem

The Trading subsystem in WebSphere Commerce provides the logic, function and data relevant for negotiating the price and quantity of a product or set of products between the buyer and seller organization. For the Professional Edition, the trading subsystem includes auctions. For the Business Edition, the trading subsystem includes auctions, contracts, and Request for Quote (RFQ) components that are used to carry out specific transactions between organizations.

2.3.4 Order subsystem

The Order subsystem is a component of the WebSphere Commerce Server that provides shopping carts, order processing, and order management function support. Related services, such as pricing, taxation, payment, inventory, and fulfillment, are also part of the order subsystem. Order processing capabilities include quick order or buy, scheduled orders, multiple pending orders, reorders, and splitting or back orders.

2.3.5 Merchandising subsystem

The Merchandising subsystem is a component of the WebSphere Commerce Server that provides functionality for cross-selling, up-selling, suggested accessories, and merchandising associations between products in the catalog.

2.3.6 Marketing subsystem

The Marketing subsystem is a component of the WebSphere Commerce Server, and provides numerous marketing concepts to your site. Components of the marketing subsystem provide functionality to create marketing campaigns including product recommendations, advertisements, and electronic coupons, discounts, customer profiles, and collaboration.

2.3.7 Inventory subsystem

The Inventory subsystem provides real-time inventory management. Components of the inventory subsystem provide functionality to record inventory received from vendors and that is returned by customers, adjust inventory quantity, determine the disposition of returned inventory, and ship and receive inventory.

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