How to use IBM App Connect with IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite

IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite (SCIS) is an open platform that provides visibility and insights across the siloed system in a supply chain. It helps to proactively identify potential disruptions as well as optimization potentials and efficiently mitigate these with your suppliers, partners and customers.

Availability:
  • App Connect Enterprise as a Service connector
  • A local connector in a Designer instance of IBM App Connect in containers (Continuous Delivery release)Local connector in containers (Continuous Delivery release) 12.0.1.0-r4 or later
  • A local connector in a Designer instance of IBM App Connect in containers (Long Term Support)Local connector in containers (Long Term Support release)
  • A local connector in a Designer instance of IBM App Connect in containers (Support Cycle 2)Local connector in containers (Long Term Support Cycle-2 release)

Supported product and API versions

To find out which product and API versions this connector supports, see Detailed System Requirements on the IBM Support page.

Connecting to IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite

Complete the connection fields that you see in the App Connect Designer Connect > Applications and APIs page (previously the Catalog page) or flow editor. If necessary, work with your IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite administrator to obtain these values.

To connect App Connect to a IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite account, select your preferred authorization type:
  • Provide credentials for App Connect to use (BASIC)
  • Provide credentials for App Connect to use (BASIC IAM)
Description of the connection fields:
Client ID
The unique identifier of your IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite. Get the client ID key from your IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite account user interface.
  • Required: True
Tip: To obtain the Client ID for IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite, see IBM API Hub on the IBM Developer page.
Username
Specify your IBM ID username
  • Required: True
Password
Specify the password that is associated with the username
  • Required: True
Organization ID
Specify the identifier that is associated with your organization in IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite
  • Required: True
Tip: To know more about Organization ID, see View organization details on the IBM Documentation page.
Host URL
The IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite GraphQL service URL
  • Required: True
IAM key
Specify the IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) key. For more information on generating IAM token, see https://ibm.biz/iamtoken_from_apikey.
  • Required: True

To connect to a IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite endpoint from the App Connect Designer Applications and APIs page for the first time, expand IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite, then click Connect. For more information, see Managing accounts.

Tip:

Before you use the account that is created in App Connect in a flow, rename the account to something meaningful that helps you to identify it. To rename the account on the Applications and APIs page, select the account, open its options menu (⋮), then click Rename Account.

General considerations

Before you use App Connect Designer with IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite, take note of the following considerations:

  • (General consideration) You can see lists of the trigger events and actions that are available on the Applications and APIs page of the App Connect Designer.

    For some applications, the events and actions depend on the environment and whether the connector supports configurable events and dynamic discovery of actions. If the application supports configurable events, you see a Show more configurable events link under the events list. If the application supports dynamic discovery of actions, you see a Show more link under the actions list.

  • (General consideration) If you are using multiple accounts for an application, the set of fields that is displayed when you select an action for that application can vary for different accounts. In the flow editor, some applications always provide a curated set of static fields for an action. Other applications use dynamic discovery to retrieve the set of fields that are configured on the instance that you are connected to. For example, if you have two accounts for two instances of an application, the first account might use settings that are ready for immediate use. However, the second account might be configured with extra custom fields.

Events and actions

IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite events

These events are for changes in this application that trigger a flow to start completing the actions in the flow.

Note: Events are not available for changes in this application. You can trigger a flow in other ways, such as at a scheduled interval or at specific dates and times.

IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite actions

Your flow completes these actions on this application.

Catalogs
Retrieve catalogs
Delete catalog
Get catalog ID
Put catalog
Demand plans
Retrieve demand plans
Delete demand plan
Get demand plan ID
Put demand plan
Inventories
Retrieve inventories
Delete inventory
Get inventory ID
Put inventory
Orders
Retrieve orders
Delete order
Get order ID
Put order
Remove order line
Replace order line
Products
Retrieve products
Delete product
Get product ID
Put product

More items are available when you have connected App Connect to IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite.

Examples

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Use templates to quickly create flows for IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite

Learn how to use App Connect templates to quickly create flows that perform actions on IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite. For example, open the Templates gallery, and then search for IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite.

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