follow-up on Use Case #3

["Durand, Jacques R." <JDurand@us.fujitsu.com>]

 

 

We need to wrap-up on Use Case #3.

So far we have:

 

- UML diagram from Stephen:

 

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/tamie/document.php?document_id=31012

 

- state diagram from Dale (need alignment with UML diag):

 

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/tamie/document.php?document_id=31013

 

Pending questions and how I see them answered by UML diag and latest discussions:

Q1: (Dale) Then if a Decline was received, the transition is to Stop (it would be to the Failure flavor of Stop in ebBP)

- that is an Order Response Simple document with "reject order" in UML diag. So yes: final state is "Order Rejected"

Q2: (Dale) If a PO Seller Side change request was received, then the Cancellation would be followed by a transition to a new PO request when the POChange Request was accepted by the original Buyer. But I am uncertain what happens when the Buyer Declines to accept the Seller’s proposed PO Change request. I suppose a Cancel would be sent. That means the logical label on the Transition to Failure should be “PurchaseOrderRequestDecline or BusinessFailure” How the Seller is notified of the rejection of the

- After an Order Response document with "modified order" in UML diag is received by Client , .there seems to be 3 options for the Client side : changeOrder, cancelOrder, and acceptOrder. So it appears that the original PO may not need be cancelled every time (if teh client sends an OrderChange doc, that automatically voids the original PO?)

Q3: (Dale) PO Change Request is not clear to me from our discussion of UBL supported processes.

- the UML diag does not make this an explicit transaction: just an "Order Response" with a "modified order" in it. Is that always how a change request is expressed?

 

Q4: Cancellation so far is only from Client side.  Is there a Cancel window possibility even after the Client has accepted an order?

 

Q5: the "add detail" activity: can it be generalized to better express all cases of order modification? e.g. partial order, substitution, etc.

 

 

 

 

-jacques