Guidelines for Using Supply Chain Search

Supply chain search attempts to find the available-to-promise (ATP) result that most closely meets the fulfillment dates on the fulfillment line.

Here's what determine the search:

• Values from the fulfillment line, such as the ship-from warehouse and whether the line allows splits, or allows substitutions.
• Settings that you make for various attributes on your ATP rule
• The assignment set and the sourcing rules that it contains

Consider How Values on the Fulfillment Line Affect Promising Results

Values on the fulfillment line affect the alternatives that supply chain search can use when it promises your item. Assume the fulfillment line doesn't allow much variability. For example, it specifies the ship-from warehouse as Denver and it doesn't allow splits or substitutions. Promising will create alternatives that only ship from Denver, but it might consider different shipping methods, such as Second Day Air instead Ground to deliver the item on time.

Promising determines a default availability and also the best possible availability from each warehouse.

If the fulfillment line doesn't limit availability, then supply search considers transferring supply for the item from different warehouses or buying it from different suppliers.