Considerations for Release Priority

Release priority impacts the way a picking line is released when a release sequence rule is applied.

Before assigning release priority to a release criteria, consider these questions:

• How you release shipment lines in your organization?

• What is the level of priority your organization assigns to the order in which lines are released?

Considerations for releasing shipment lines

Before selecting the release criteria, you must plan how your organization will release shipment lines. Consider the following:

• What is the most commonly used criteria based on which shipment lines are released?

  Consider your organization's preferred criteria for releasing shipment lines. It can be based on sales order number, outstanding invoice value, scheduled date, initial ship date, and shipping priority. This directly impacts how and when the shipment line is released.

Considerations for assigning release priority

Consider these dependencies before assigning attributes to the release priority:

• You can assign a priority level to one attribute with 1 being the highest and 5 being the lowest.

  Consider your organization's usage of a specific attribute.

  Note: You can select an attribute only once while deciding the relative priorities.

• You can assign the order, ascending or descending, in which the specified attribute will be made effective.

  For example, if you select the ascending order for attribute Sales Order number, the shipment lines are released by ascending sales order number. Sales Order 1 is released first, then Sales Order 2, Sales Order 3, and so on.

• You can't assign both the Outstanding invoice value attribute or the Sales Order number attribute to a release priority in the same release sequence rule.