Microsoft .NET Server Solutions for the Enterprise

Purchase Order Reception Architecture

Viewed from a high level, the architecture of purchase order reception in AFS consists of:

• Receiving a purchase order from a trading partner.
• Using BizTalk Server to transform the purchase order to a format compatible with Commerce Server.
• Using the Commerce Server Business Process Pipelines System to process the order and save it to the Transactions database.

The following figure illustrates the steps involved at the next level of detail. The numbered arrows in the figure correspond to an explanation of the steps following the figure.

Purchase order reception architecture

The steps involved in publishing a catalog, as shown in the previous figure, are:

1. The trading partner uses HTTP to post the purchase order to an ASP page in the supplier's Web site. As implemented in the AFS Solution Site, the name of this page is ReceivePO.asp.