What is a partner and partner location code for Assure?
Partners can either be of the type Supplier or of the type Customer.. Assure support multiple locations of suppliers and customers, hence all partners have at least one Partner Location.
Why is partner / partner location code required for Assure?What is the significance of Partners and Partner Locations in Assure
Partners and their locations are used to identify the sources and destination of inward as well as outward orders.
Partner and Partner Location information is also used within generated internal invoices.
What happens on duplicate create requests for Customers and Vendors (Partners)?
Duplicate calls to create Customers and Vendors (Partners) are idempotent. No changes will be made to the existing Customers or Vendors and a 200-OK response will be sent by the API
Is Partner Location creation mandatory and what to do if we don't have partner location code?
If you don't have PartnerLocation codes at your end then two approaches can be followed:
Use a single, constant Location Code for all the Vendors
Set the Location Code same as the Vendor code
What are the meanings of address(partner), billing(partnerLocation) and shipping address(partnerLocation) of partner and partner locations?
The Partner’s Address represents the geographic location of a Partner’s headquarters
The Partner’s Location has two aspects - the billing address and the shipping address. The address that the Partner desires to use for billing and shipping purposes must be specified in the Partner’s billing and shipping address data. These three addresses might or might not be the same
What are the unique fields (primary key) in partner and partner location creation?
For Partner, the name and partnerType values must be unique across all partners. For Partner Location, no unique constraints exist.
What if GSTIN is not available for partner location creation?
The GSTIN field is a mandatory field. A value must be provided for this field
What happens on duplicate Create requests with the same master data and sku attribute? (Applicable to all type of masters, SKU Attributes)
The calls made for creation of product masters are idempotent meaning that if duplicate requests are sent, no change will be made. Therefore, if the product master data was successfully saved after the first call, subsequent duplicate calls will have no impact on the data. Each duplicate call will result in a 200-OK response.
What happens on duplicate Requests with the same master data and different sku attribute? (Applicable to all type of masters,SKU Attributes)
If different attribute data is passed for a specific product master using the create-article-master API endpoint, the SKU attributes will not be updated to the latest passed value.
However, when using the add-or-update-SKU-attributes API endpoint, the SKU Attribute Data from the latest successful call will be saved for the specified product master, i.e. the SKU attributes will be updated.
What if ERP is not able to send Tax code?
Assure is a WMS module, hence Clients should never rely on Assure to compute accurate taxation. This is ERP’s responsibility. So in case ERP is not able to send correct tax code for each sku, it can use a default value GIVEN that in such case Assure tax computation will never be used.
What if ERP is capable of sending the tax breakup ?
During packing, the Assure system can fetch the tax breakup from Order Source.
What if ERP is not able to send the Image URL?
The image URL is not a mandatory field and it may be left blank.
If the image URL is absent or incorrect, the image of the product won’t be displayed on WMS screens. This will affect picking, packing and all QC related operations.
Image URLS can also be updated using the product data updation API or from Assure UI.
Note: The image URL must be a string under 255 characters
How to update an existing SKU master?
The SKU Masters can be updated using the updateArticleMaster endpoint (assuming that the listing for that product is present). OR Product master can also be updated from Assure OMS UI.
Can ERP create marketplace listing/mapping using AssureMagic2?
No, this feature is not available at the moment.