How Promising Promises a Back-to-Back Sales Order

Oracle Promising chooses the best possible sources across the supply chain to help fulfill an item in your back-to-back flow.

1. You create a sales order in Oracle Order Management that includes a back-to-back item. The Back-to-Back Enabled attribute in the Product Information Management work area specifies whether the item is a back-to-back item.
2. Order Management sends demand details about the order to Promising.
3. Promising uses the sourcing rules, ATP rules, and other setups that you've done to analyze sources in your supply chain, considers supply recommendations from Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration, then selects the source that can most closely meet demand.

   Promising pegs supply against the order, and this pegging affects the supply recommendation. If Supply Chain Orchestration creates a supply order, then Promising respects the pegging during any subsequent reschedule. This approach makes sure that no other demand can use the pegged supply.

4. Promising schedules the sales order.
5. Promising examines your supply chain, then sends a supply recommendation to Supply Chain Orchestration. The recommendation requests to buy, make, or transfer supply, or to use on-hand inventory.
6. Supply Chain Orchestration creates a supply document according to the recommendation.

   Type of Flow	Supply Document
   Buy	Purchase order in Oracle Procurement
   Make	Work order in Oracle Manufacturing
   Transfer	Transfer order in Oracle Inventory Management
   On-hand	Reservation request for on-hand inventory in Inventory Management

7. Promising sends scheduling details to Order Management and Supply Chain Orchestration.

Fulfillment is different for each type of flow.

Purchase Order

1. Promising sends scheduling details to Order Management and Supply Chain Orchestration.
2. Supply Chain Orchestration sends details about the supply that's needed to meet demand to Procurement.
3. Procurement creates and then sends a purchase order to Inventory Management.
4. Inventory Management reserves the supply that it needs to fulfill the order, then ships the order to your customer.

Work Order

1. Supply Chain Orchestration sends details about the supply that's needed to meet demand to Manufacturing.
2. Manufacturing creates and finishes the work order.
3. Inventory Management reserves the supply, then ships the sales order to your customer.

Transfer Order

1. Supply Chain Orchestration sends details about the supply that's needed to meet demand to Inventory Management.
2. Inventory Management reserves supply and creates a transfer order.
3. Inventory Management does the transfer, then ships the order to your customer.

On-Hand

Promising might request to use on-hand inventory when on-hand supply is available in the fulfillment warehouse.

1. Supply Chain Orchestration sends a recommendation to Inventory Management to reserve the on-hand supply.
2. Inventory Management reserves the supply, then ships the order to your customer.