1. Administering and Working with Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management
  2. Building and Calculating Models
  3. Creating and Managing Rules
  4. Creating Rule Sets
  5. Rule Set Design Best Practices

Rule Set Design Best Practices

Calculation options at the rule set level are Serial, Parallel, and Interative.

Best practices for Parallel rule sets:

  • Designing rules that are independent of each others' source and destination targets allows you to use parallel calculation.

  • Because parallel calculation has diminishing returns, more than five concurrent threads generally does not improve performance.

Best practices for Interative rule sets:

  • Interative rule sets are only useful for solving reciprocal allocation systems.

  • Ensure that each rule has a portion of the destination range that exits the reciprocal system.

  • Experiment with the number of iterations.

  • Create a no reciprocal sweep rule for each rule in the reciprocal system to sweep out any remainders.