Is there now a REST alternative to using SOAP webservice “Order Fulfillment Response Service”

Summary:

A few years back when developing 3PL integrations, customer used REST. But after Generate Outbound Shipment Request, order lines stayed in status Await Shipping.

At that time, there was an alternative given, using SOAP service Order Fulfillment Response Service.

By configuring a custom Shipping status in the Orchestration flows (we called it 'Interfaced to WMS') … we triggered the SOAP after processing in OIC the inbound REST message of the Generate Outbound Shipment Request. And update status of the line from Await Shipping into Interfaced to WMS using the SOAP webservice.

Use cases/benefits from this status update are:

1- That order line status change tells order entry people that order lines where interfaced to external execution system. And hence they should not change scheduling attributes.