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Preselection of Corporate Delivery Flow Models

Delivery flow models are automatically preselected for each product in an assortment plan, if the required information has been entered into the database. The following criteria are considered in this process:

• The Start Date and End Date of the season chosen for the assortment plan.
• The Delivery Period Type chosen for the assortment plan.
• Each product's Effective Start Date and Effective End Date.
• The Number of Periods for each delivery flow model.
• The Delivery Flow Type.
• Whether the Recommended Flag has been selected in each delivery flow model.

The application determines the number of periods for each product in the assortment plan by comparing the season's Start Date and End Date, the assortment plan's Delivery Period Type (such as Weekly or Monthly), and the product's Effective Start date and Effective End Date. For instance, if an assortment plan runs from July 1 through September 30 and has a Delivery Period Type of Monthly, the assortment plan will have three delivery periods. However, if a given product in the assortment plan is available from June 1 through August 31, that product will have only two delivery periods that fall within the assortment plan's season.

The application preselects the delivery flow model that meets the following two requirements:

• It has the same Number of Periods value as the product.
• It has the same Delivery Flow Type value as the product's category.

If more than one delivery flow model meets these two requirements, the application preselects the model for which the Recommended Flag field has been selected.

To support this functionality, you must create delivery flow models for each unique combination of Number of Periods and Delivery Flow Type that is possible within each assortment plan. In addition, if you create more than one delivery flow model with the same Number of Periods value and the same Delivery Flow Type value, you must select the Recommended Flag field for one of these models.

To create corporate delivery flow models

1. Navigate to the Administration - Data screen > Assortment Planning - Delivery Flow view.
2. In the Delivery Flow Model list, create a new record and complete the necessary fields.

   Some fields are described in the following table.

   Field	Comments
   Delivery Flow Model	The name of the Delivery Flow Model, such as Even - 3 drop.
   Number of Periods	The number of delivery periods. This value determines the number of records that are created in the Algorithm list.
   Delivery Type	A value used to classify the pattern of weighting you create for the delivery flow model. In the standard product, the available values are Even, Front Load, and Back Load. You can edit these values or create additional ones. For more information, see Applications Administration Guide. LOV Type: DEL_FLOW_TYPE
   Recommended Flag	An optional field used to help determine which delivery flow model is preselected for a product. If you create more than one delivery flow model with the same Number of Periods and Delivery Flow Type, you should select the Recommended Flag for one of these models.

3. In the Algorithm list, edit the values in the Weighting field for each delivery date to represent the delivery pattern you want to specify for this delivery flow model.

   NOTE:  The total of all the values in the Weighting column is automatically calculated. The total must be 100 to create a useful corporate delivery flow model.

4. Select the algorithms you wish to commit to the database and save them in either of the following ways:
   • Click Menu and choose Save Record.
   • On the Algorithm list, click Save All to save all of the algorithms on the list.