OTM can generate outbound XML data for any business object — Order Release, Shipment, Invoice, and more — and send it to an external system such as a carrier platform, ERP, or middleware. This can be triggered manually using the Send Interface Transmission action, or automatically from an OTM Agent (workflow). OTM Agents are covered in a later topic.

There are three things you need to set up before OTM can send outbound data: