How Supply is Considered in the Infinite Availability Based Mode

When applying a backlog planning rule in the infinite availability based mode, the planning process bypasses supply consideration and determines the planned date from the requested date. Because supply is assumed to be infinite for all days, a request is always planned on the requested date, except in cases where transit lead times are violated.

Settings That Affect the Infinite Availability Based Mode

The type of the requested date impacts the infinite availability mode. If the request type specified by the customer was Shipment, then the requested date is the requested ship date. If the request type specified by the customer was Arrival, then the requested date is the requested arrival date.

How Supply Is Considered

The backlog planning process assumes infinite availability on all days, so no supply and demand matching is done for infinite planning. However, the process must still respect certain constraints for the organization when determining the planned date from the requested date.

• If the requested date is the requested arrival date, the process respects calendar constraints and transit lead time constraints.

• If the requested date is the requested ship date, the process respects calendar constraints.