How You Configure Global Order Promising to Support Back-to-Back Fulfillment

This topic provides supporting documentation for a step in the Setting Up Back-to-Back Fulfillment roadmap. If you have a requirement to build products to meet your supply demand for back-to-back orders, you must configure Oracle Global Order Promising.

The Global Order Promising Rules tasks that you configure in the Order Promising work area in the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering are:

• Manage ATP Rules

• Manage Sourcing Rules

• Manage Assignment Sets

Configuring Global Order Promising to support back-to-back fulfillment is similar to configuration for standard order promising. However, there are additional needs specific to back-to-back order promising. The following table provides the configuration settings you must apply.

Task Name	Settings	Comments
Manage ATP Rules	Select Supply chain availability search for the Promising Mode	NA
Manage ATP Rules	Enable Search Components and Resources	This is mandatory for back-to-back make recommendations.
Manage ATP Rules	Select the Supply Types you want supported	NA
Manage ATP Rules	Set the Infinite Availability Time Fence Definition to a large value	If the flow is required to support long-lead items, set this attribute. Otherwise, make this value consistent with the planning time fence for the enterprise. Note: If Global Order Promising doesn't find sufficient supply until the Infinite Time Fence, it assumes there's an infinite supply for the manufactured item. Therefore, Global Order Promising doesn't generate any recommendations.
Manage Sourcing Rules	Choose Local for the Organization Assignment Type	Depending on the general setup, ranking of sources, and the ability to provide supply in the required lead time, Global Order Promising recommends make, transfer, or on hand supply recommendations.
Manage Sourcing Rules	(Optional) Enter the Start Date and End Date for Sourcing Rule Effective Dates	NA
Manage Sourcing Rules	Define supply sources in the Sources table	NA
Manage Assignment Sets	Provide the following attributes: Assignment Level Item Define the sourcing rule within the assignment set (in the Sourcing Rule or Bill of Distribution column)	Global Order Promising supports assignment at multiple hierarchical levels.

Tip: For a manufactured item, you must associate the item with a "Make At" sourcing rule specified for the organization for which the item will be manufactured.

Global Order Promising looks through sourcing to determine what type of supply recommendation to generate at the fulfillment organization. The following table shows the supply generation recommendations for various scenarios.

Scenario	Supply Recommendation
Available-to-promise (ATP) supply available at fulfillment organization	Generate ATP (on-hand) recommendation
Supply available at upstream organization defined in the local sourcing rule	Generate transfer recommendation
Supply available through components and resources at fulfillment organization	Generate make recommendation
Supply available at supplier defined in local sourcing rule at fulfillment organization	Generate buy recommendation

For more information about working with these tasks, see How Order Promising Rules Work Together in the Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: Using Global Order Promising guide.