Chapter 20. Inventory Management Application
by Benoît Marchal
In This Chapter
In this chapter, you'll see how to build a solution to provide timely information to retailers with the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). For the purpose of this chapter, imagine that you are in the wholesale business. Your company buys goods from different suppliers, stores them in one or more warehouses, and resells them to retailers. Although you ship most products to the retailers, increasingly, you ship directly to the end buyer.
At the heart of this business is a strong commitment to managing logistics: A wholesaler is a buffer between manufacturing and retailing. ...
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