Supplier Capacity Constraints

Supplier capacity constraints determine how much new material can be ordered from a supplier within a given time bucket. If the supply planning process can't find any alternatives to meet demand on time, then supplier capacity is overloaded to fulfill the demand on time.

Here are some additional points about supplier capacity constraints:

• Supplier capacity is applied as a soft constraint when planning supplies for buy items.

• Supplier capacity constraint can result in the selection of an alternate supplier.

• Supplier capacity is consumed on the suggested dock date of buy orders.

• Supplier capacity is cumulative and any unused capacity from one planning time bucket carries forward into the next bucket.

• For configure-to-order items in a constraint-based supply plan, the planning process considers capacity at the model-item level. Supplies for configurations consume supplier capacity of the base model.