Set Up Supply Chain Orchestration for Back-to-Back Fulfillment

The orchestration processes that Supply Chain Orchestration uses for back-to-back fulfillment come predefined. In most situations, you can use them without modification.

Supply Chain Orchestration automatically assigns an orchestration process to the order for each item where you set the Back-to-Back Enabled option to Yes in the Product Information Management work area. Order Promising recommends to use make, buy, transfer, or on-hand to create supply when it schedules fulfillment.

If your user manually creates a supply request, then Supply Chain Orchestration combines demand details from Order Management with the supply recommendation from Order Promising when it creates the supply request document.

Use Purchase Order Instead of Transfer Order

Orchestration uses a transfer order to process an internal transfer from one warehouse to another warehouse, by default. However, you might need to use a purchase order to process an internal transfer. For example, to address a financial reason.

As an option, set up a rule that creates the supply document so it changes the behavior of the supply demand. The rule determines whether to use a transfer order or a purchase order to fulfill a transfer request that starts in a back-to-back sales order.