When to Override Demand Priority

When you run the backlog plan, orders are prioritized based on the demand priority rule, and supply is allocated accordingly. The order priority is inferred from the Calculated Priority values, which are in multiples of 10, with 10 being the highest-ranked value. But let's say you may want a critical order, Order X, prioritized over others, but without changing the priority sequence. To do this, you can specify an Override Priority value of, say, 1, on that order. Here's what happens when you run the plan then:

• Order X gets top priority, and its Calculated Priority value is 1.

• The former calculated priority values of other orders remain the same.

Note: Because supply needs to be redistributed when you plan after overriding priorities, the planning results of low priority orders could worsen.