ProcessInventoryMovement — Inventory movement
OAGIS BOD combining the verb Process and the noun InventoryMovement. Business cornerstone of the logistics domain in the OAGIS 10.x ecosystem.
BOD purpose
The ProcessInventoryMovement BOD records an inventory move: receipt, issue, internal transfer, adjustment. Issued by the WMS to the ERP as physical operations happen, it feeds the accounting inventory journal and the planning layer.
Structure (ApplicationArea + DataArea)
As every OAGIS BOD, ProcessInventoryMovement stacks an
ApplicationArea technical envelope (Sender, BODID, CreationDateTime) and
a DataArea business payload containing the verb Process
and the noun InventoryMovement.
XML example
Minimal OAGIS 10.x payload for didactic purposes. The structural elements (header + business line) are required in any conformant implementation.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ProcessInventoryMovement
xmlns="http://www.openapplications.org/oagis/10"
releaseID="10.11" versionID="10.11">
<ApplicationArea>
<Sender>
<LogicalID>ERP-CENTRAL-EU</LogicalID>
<ComponentID>LogisticsModule</ComponentID>
<ConfirmationCode>OnError</ConfirmationCode>
</Sender>
<CreationDateTime>2026-05-16T10:15:00Z</CreationDateTime>
<BODID>5a8f7d2e-2b15-4c1a-9e6f-processinventorymovement-2026-0014</BODID>
</ApplicationArea>
<DataArea>
<Process>
<ActionCriteria>
<ActionExpression actionCode="Add"/>
</ActionCriteria>
</Process>
<InventoryMovement>
<InventoryMovementHeader>
<DocumentID><ID>INV-MOV-2026-051601</ID></DocumentID>
<DocumentDateTime>2026-05-16T10:05:00Z</DocumentDateTime>
<MovementType>InternalTransfer</MovementType>
</InventoryMovementHeader>
<InventoryMovementLine>
<LineNumber>1</LineNumber>
<Item><ItemIDs><ID>RBC-2200</ID></ItemIDs></Item>
<Quantity unitCode="EA">48</Quantity>
<FromLocation><LocationID>WHS-EAST-A1-04</LocationID></FromLocation>
<ToLocation><LocationID>WHS-EAST-PREP-12</LocationID></ToLocation>
</InventoryMovementLine>
</InventoryMovement>
</DataArea>
</ProcessInventoryMovement>Use case
Acme's WMS pushes to SAP every 5 minutes a batch of ProcessInventoryMovement consolidating the day's moves: 218 receipts, 312 outbound picks, 47 internal transfers.
EDI equivalents
- X12 947 — Inventory Inquiry/Advice — X12 equivalent (see X12 on ediverse).
Further reading
- OAGi — OAGIS 10.x — official spec page and free download.
- OAGi (OAGIS) — hub on ediverse — BOD architecture, verbs, canonical model.
- EDIFACT on ediverse — comparison baseline for BODs with EDIFACT counterpart.
- X12 on ediverse — comparison baseline for BODs with X12 counterpart.