(1) In hardware, a functional unit that converts small electronic signals to signals that control a device.
(2) The object handling a stimulus passed from a sender object. See also sender, receive.
(3) A defined role in WebSphere Commerce that receives inventory at the fulfillment center, tracks expected inventory records and ad hoc receipts for ordered products, and receives returned products as a result of customer returns. See also logistics manager.
(4) A component that accepts documents from external partners and from back end applications and stores them in a file system for the Document Manager to process. Specifically, it receives a document over a supported transport protocol, writes the document and metadata relating to the document to the shared file system, records any transport-specific data to the metadata file, and completes any transport-specific technical acknowledgment.