1. Using Order Promising
  2. Try Different Availability Options

Try Different Availability Options

To examine different ways to fulfill a fulfillment line, go to the Check Availability page, click a fulfillment line, then click View Availability Options.

Here's what Promising does:

  • Examines the supply that's available in your supply chain to determine the best possible promise dates.
  • Uses the same logic that it uses to determine availability. It looks at values on the fulfillment line. It also looks at your available-to-promise rules, sourcing rules, and allocation rules.
  • If supply isn't available in the requested warehouse, then Promising looks upstream to see what supply is available.
  • Adds lead times and creates a promise date.
  • Doesn't actually create supply until you select and schedule an option. For example, it doesn't create a transfer document between your supplier and the ship-from warehouse when its creating the option. At this point, it is only looking at different possible outcomes.

Here's what Promising displays in the Availability Options area:

  • One or more options instead only the best option.
  • A status for each option that indicates whether the option is on time, delayed, or split into on time and delayed.
  • Only what's available. If values on the line are highly restrictive, you might get fewer or even only one option.
  • Options in rank order, according to:
    1. Amount of delay for the option, then. .
    2. Cost, then. .
    3. Whether Promising substituted the item
  • The option that has the least amount of delay and cost is in the number 1 position, and is the default option.

You can use less specific values on the line to allow Promising to consider more options:

  • Don't specify the ship from warehouse, and Promising will look at all warehouses according to your promising rules and the item's organization.
  • Don't specify the shipping method, and Promising will look at all methods according to your promising rules.
  • Allow splits, and Promising will consider splitting the line as way to improve promising results.
  • Allow substitutions, and Promising will look at substituting the item for another item as way to improve promising results.

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