Subscription Information

In order to use subscriptions, there are a few registry changes that must be made. For more information, see Enterprise Connector service.

Plant Applications supports interaction with ERP systems through comprehensive, complex subscriptions, as well as incremental updates. Subscriptions allow Plant Applications to launch an upload of data (performance upload) to an external system, based on the status triggers you specify. For example, you may wish to update your ERP system every hour and on batch completion, but only when the schedule’s status is Running and also whenever the Production Plan status changes from Pending to Complete. Subscriptions are also used to update the Plant Applications database when information is received from (schedule download) an ERP system.

Subscription information populates the ERP_Transactions, Subscription, Subscription_Groups, and Subscriptions_Triggers tables in the Plant Applications database.

By default, Plant Applications includes five pre-defined subscription groups and subscriptions. These subscriptions conform to the S95/B2MML standards as defined by the World Batch Forum (www.wbf.org). The subscription groups and subscriptions are:

• ScheduleDownload

• ProductionPerformance

• ConsumptionPerformance

• TestConformance

• OrderConfirmation

See Also

• Enterprise Connector service and registry settings

• Email Messages

• Subscription Prerequisites

• Creating a Subscription

• Editing Subscription Properties

• Bill of Materials Administration Overview

• XML Schemas