What's New in Using Order Promising

Get a summary about content that's new or significantly revised in each update of Using Order Promising.

To get details about.

• New features in each update, see Order Management in Oracle Cloud Release Readiness.

• Known issues for each update, see Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Doc ID 1563075.1).

Update 24B

Topic	Description
Consume Resources Only After Components Are Available	New. Set up Promising so it starts consuming resources only after your factory has all the components it needs to begin manufacturing.
Set up Geography for Promising	New. Set up geography so Promising can use it to source your supply.
Try Different Availability Options	Revised. Clarified how availability options work.
Vary Type and Rate of Consumption for Components, Materials, and Resources	Revised. You can now use FBDI to import your data.

Update 24A

Topic	Description
Add Lead Time So You Can Pick and Pack	New. Use the Pick and Pack Lead Time attribute to add flexibility between the date when supply becomes available at your fulfillment organization and the time when you ship it.
Use Different Components, Materials, and Resources Depending on Start and End Dates	New. Align the start dates and end dates for each manufacturing component and resource in your bill of resources with the dates that your fulfillment flow uses.
Vary Type and Rate of Consumption for Components, Materials, and Resources	New. Meet demand for components and resources in your bill of resources even when the same operation has more than one instance of the same component or resource in your fulfillment flow.
Set Postprocessing Lead Times	Revised. See the new Add Postprocessing Days When You Modify Ship Dates subtopic.
Manage Order Promising Options	Revised. New details about Generate Replay Data Sets, including a handy demonstration.

Update 23D

Topic	Description
Allocate Supply in Source Promising	New. Use an allocation rule to manage real-time supply with source promising.
Split Order Lines When Supply Meets a Threshold	Revised. Contains new guidelines.

Update 23C

Topic	Description
Use Source Promising in Your Back-to-Back Flows	New. Promise an item and track it at run time to keep your supply and demand data accurate during fulfillment.
Manage Promising Profiles	New. Consolidates all the promising profile content into a single topic.
Allocate Supply Through FBDI	New. Use file-based data import (FBDI) to manage the supply that you allocate according to quantity.
Manage Supply After the Promising Horizon Expires	New. Buy, make, or transfer supply even after the promising horizon expires.
Schedule Options on More Than One Level of an Assemble to Order Item	New. Get more detailed capable-to-promise calculations and more accurate promise dates for a complex assemble-to-order item.
Set Up Your Items in Product Information Management	New. Use the Product Information Management work area to do various set ups on your item that affect promising.
Temporarily Reserve Supply While Shopping or Quoting	Revised. See these new subtopics: Delete Expired Demand Temporarily Reserve Supply with Source Promising
Troubleshoot Setup Problems in Order Promising	Revised. See the new Extract Global Order Promising Replay Data subtopic.

Update 23B

Topic	Description
Split Order Lines When Supply Meets a Threshold	New. Split an order line and fulfill at least some of your customer's demand even if part of the quantity becomes available after the requested date.
Get Promising Dates in Real Time	Revised. Updated to clarify what you can and can't do.

Update 23A

Topic	Description
Create Alternative Fulfillment Scenarios to Reduce Cost	New. Set up Promising so you can select an alternative fulfillment scenario that has the lowest total cost to fulfill the item.
Use REST API to Adjust Allocation Percentages	New. Use REST API to adjust the percentage of supply that Global Order Promising assigns to an allocation node with a quantity that you specify in your import payload.
Use Work Definitions with Your Bill of Resources	New. A separate topic about how to use work definitions with your bill of resources. This content was previously in Guidelines for Creating a Bill of Resources.
Database Promising	Revised. Has a lot of new information. Check it out!
Order Management Statuses	Revised. If the status of all the fulfillment lines in a sales order is Closed or Canceled, then you can't modify the Primary Salesperson attribute on order header.
See What Supply is Available and Allocated	Revised. Has new details about the Review Supply Allocation action.
Examine Availability Dates	Revised. Has some new details about how Promising uses time zones.
Manage Order Promising Options	Revised. Get new details about how to set and use these options.

Update 22D

Topic	Description
Include Resources for Configure Options	New. Check availability and schedule the resources that you need to fulfill a configure option and include them in your bill of resources.
Adjust Your Allocation Quantities	New. If you use a quantity to allocate supply in a fulfillment hierarchy in Global Order Promising, then you can use REST API to modify that quantity.
Allocate Supply Through REST API	New. Use the Quick Availability Check REST API to get details about the supply that's currently available in your supply chain.
Get Supply from a Node's Parent	Revised. Get new details about how to do this.
Get Promising Dates in Real Time	Revised. If you use source promising, then this feature will also consider supplies that have an availability date that happens in the future.
Guidelines for Creating a Bill of Resources	Revised. Get details about how to use work definitions with your bill of resources.

Update 22C

Topic	Description
Allocate Supply in a Hierarchy	New section. Contains several new topics that describe how to allocate supply in a hierarchy.
Get Promising Dates in Real Time	New topic. Get accurate available-to-promise dates from across millions of possible fulfillment scenarios.
Include Over the Counter Transactions When You Promise	New topic. Set up Promising so it considers inventory reductions that result from an over the counter transaction.
Include Supplier Capacity When You Promise ATO Items	New topic. Use the capacity for the configuration model when you schedule an assemble-to-order item instead of the capacity for each specific configuration.
Use Lower Priority Supply to Fulfill Higher Priority Demand	New topic. Set up your allocation rule so you can consume supply from a lower priority node to fulfill demand for a higher-priority node.

Update 22B

Topic	Description
Use Alternative Resources and Substitute Components	New topic. Use alternative resources or substitute manufacturing components to reduce delay when promising your item. Use them in your bill of resources so you can provide earlier, more accurate promise dates.
Use Cutoff Times to Control Your Shipments	New topic. Use a cutoff time to change the scheduled ship date for sales orders that Promising has already scheduled but that you can't ship today for some reason.

Update 22A

Topic	Description
Bills of Resources	New section. Automatically create a bill of resources to help fulfill a sales order when supply isn’t already available in your supply chain.
Keep Availability in Global Order Promising and Inventory Management Synchronized	New. Keep the values that you see in Global Order Promising synchronized with Inventory Management.
Why Is My Inventory Different From What's Available?	New. Learn how you can fix it.
Overview of Global Order Promising	New. Find out what Global Order Promising is and why you would want to use it.
Split or Substitute Fulfillment Lines	Revised. Make sure you consider how lead time affects promising when you split or substitute a line.
Source Promising	Revised. Get details about whether you can use web services and REST API.
Set Up Your Promising Rules Source Your Supply Chain	Revised chapters. Get new details that will help you set up your rules.