Ecommerce Rules

Purpose: Use the Ecommerce Rules screen to review or work with existing ecommerce rules, or create new rules.

Used for the Order Broker module.

What is an ecommerce rule? An ecommerce rule is a probability rule that applies only to calculation of the probable quantity, an estimate of available quantity that your ecommerce site can retrieve in order to more accurately present an item’s availability.

Calculated when? The ecommerce update program calculates the probable quantity. See the Ecommerce tab of the System screen for information on scheduling or running the ecommerce update program, and see Location Inventory Updates for Ecommerce in the Operations Guide for a process overview and background.

Assigning and applying rules: You use the Ecommerce Location screen to assign a rule to a location type or to a location. If you specify a system product, master style, department, class, or category as criteria for the rule, the rule applies only to product locations that match your entries.

Each rule applies only to the location type or location where it is assigned.

Rule hierarchy: See the Ecommerce Location screen for a discussion of how the ecommerce update program selects a probability rule if a product location qualifies for multiple rules.

Required Preference setting: Use Probability Rules must be selected at the Preferences screen in order for an ecommerce rule to apply to the calculation of the probable quantity.

Order Broker probability rules: See the Probability Rule Wizard for more information on probability rules that apply to locate items searches and order assignment, rather than the probable quantity calculation.

How to display this screen: Select Ecommerce Rules from the Products Menu.

Note:             Available if Use Order Broker is selected at the Tenant screen. Only users with Ecommerce Rules authority can display this screen. See the Role Wizard for more information.

Options at this screen

Option

Procedure

create an ecommerce rule

1.      Enter a Rule Name of up to 40 positions.

2.      Click NEW. If the rule already exists, the screen displays an error message. Otherwise, you advance to the New Ecommerce Rule window, where you can complete creation of the rule.

Note:  If you click Cancel at the New Ecommerce Rule window, the rule is not created.

search for an ecommerce rule

Enter a full or partial Rule Name and click SEARCH to display rules whose names include your entry.

select a rule for review or maintenance

Click the edit icon (edit_icon.png) next to a rule to advance to the Edit Ecommerce Rule window.

delete a rule

Select the delete icon (delete_icon.png) next to a rule to delete it.

Note:  You cannot delete a rule that is assigned to any location types or locations. Use the Ecommerce Location screen to review or work with rule assignments.

 

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