Set Attributes on Your Supply Chain Search

Search Components and Resources

Use this option when you have a configured item. If you enable the Search Components and Resources option on your ATP rule, then supply chain search considers the components and resources that your factory needs to make the configured item. Inventory for an item that you make might not available, so Promising will look at the components and resources that you need to promise the order. It also considers calendars, lead times, and capacity when it searches your components and resources.

Assume your item is the AS54888 laptop computer, it includes the Keyboard component and the Monitor component, and you assemble these components onto the Chassis component. Promising will consider the supply that's available for the keyboard, monitor, and chassis.

Use this option only when:

You build the item from components.
You maintain inventory for the components.
You already collected bill-of-material and routing details into the planning data repository from your fulfillment system. For details, see Collect Data for Global Order Promising.

Profitable to Promise

If you enable the Profitable to Promise option, and if Promising finds more than one way to fulfill the item on the same date, then it determines the cost for each alternative, and uses the one that has the lowest cost regardless of sourcing priority. Promising will ignore sourcing priorities and instead use the source that costs the least to promise your item, according to:

Standard cost in your organization
Standard cost from your supplier
Cost to do an internal transfer between organizations
Cost to ship the item from your supplier to your organization
Cost to ship the item from the ship-from location to your customer site

If you make the item, then Promising also considers:

Cost to consume the resource, according to each unit of the resource that you consume
Cost of the components that you need to make the item

Assume you have this set up:

The M1 warehouse and the M2 warehouse each have a quantity of 100.
Your sourcing rule has a higher priority for M1.
You enable the Profitable to Promise attribute on your ATP rule.

Assume the fulfillment line has:

Requested Quantity: 60
Requested Date: January 1

And the cost for each item is:

$20 each in M1
$10 each in M2

Supply chain search will ignore M1 and promise 60 units from M2.

Note

Promising uses the lowest total fulfillment cost to determine the best way to fulfill the item.
Promising gives priority to satisfying the requested delivery date. Promising doesn't delay fulfillment to lower cost.

Respect Allocation Constraints

If you enable the Respect Allocation Constraints option, then Promising will apply your allocation rule to the item. If you don't, then Promising ignores your allocation rules.

Truncate Order Fulfillment Quantity to Nearest Integer

If you enable the Truncate Order Fulfillment Quantity to Nearest Integer option, and if the fulfillment line allows splits, then Promising will truncate the value of the quantity from the line to the nearest integer.

Enable this option to make sure the split quantity is an in integer value, that the value is in the units of measure (UOM) from the line, and to make sure Promising doesn't split the quantity into a decimal value because:

Fractional components for building the supply on time are available
UOM conversion