How You Maintain Your Network Supply Model for Backlog Management

Use the Maintain Supply Network Model page to view your collected data that includes details of organization, customers, suppliers, carriers, and interlocation shipping networks. To access the Maintain Network Model page, navigate to a Supply Chain Planning work area. Click the Tasks panel tab and then select the Maintain Supply Network Model link.

You use organizations to represent your business facilities or functions. Typically, if your business has a single physical facility that performs two different functions, then you model it as two organizations. For example, you have one facility that's a manufacturing plant and a distribution center. You can model them as two separate organizations. Additionally, if your business has one function located in two separate physical facilities, you can model those as one organization. If you modeled your facilities as one organization, you can create separate subinventories to represent inventory for each facility.

Review the Collected Data

Based on your search results, use the information on the Organization tab to do the following:

• Review organizations, including the time zones associated with the organizations, for all source systems.

• Select the drop ship validation organization. For each source system, you can select only one organization as the drop ship validation organization. You can also assign a calendar to a drop shop validation organization.

Use the Customer and Supplier tabs to review collected data and assign time zones to customer sites and supplier sites. If the customer site or supplier site doesn't have an associated time zone, then the customer site or supplier site is assumed to be in the same time zone as the organization that's associated to the demand or supply.

Use the Carrier and Interlocation Shipping Locations tabs to review collected data on carriers, shipping methods, and transit times.