Include Supplier Capacity When You Promise ATO Items

Use the capacity for the configuration model when you schedule an assemble-to-order item instead of the capacity for each configured item. This way, you're scheduling the resources that all configurations use when you create a variation of the same model.

It usually isn't possible to determine your supplier’s production capacity for each configured item. However, a supplier typically uses the same capacity to create a variety of configurations, so Promising can examine and consume capacity according to the production calendar from your approved supplier list (ASL), and this provides more accurate results. It’s also easier to maintain details about supplier capacity for each model than it is for every possible configuration of that model.

You can realize these benefits.

• Improve your promising accuracy. You can track the supplier's capacity while you promise for a variety of different configurations.
• Reduce the amount of set up you need to do. You can apply the supplier's capacity for the parent to all the parent's children instead of having to apply the capacity separately to each child.
• Have a more flexible supply chain. Use a lead time offset on your calendar, and set a different offset for each configuration.

Notes

• If you need to adjust an availability date for a configured item, then you can still use that item’s lead time and calendar from the approved supplier list even if you use the High Volume Order Promising feature.
• You can use the Supply Availability REST API to get details about your supplier's capacity when you fulfill the configured item. For details and examples, go to REST API for Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud, then search for Supply Availability.
• Promising automatically includes supplier capacity when it promises each ATO item.
• Each configured item consumes supply from the parent model’s supplier capacity.
• You can use file-based data import to import your supplier's capacity, lead time, and calendar.

Set the Supplier Lead Time and the Calendar

• If you specify the supplier lead time and the calendar in the approved supplier list for the configured item, then Promising uses those values when it calculates the lead time offset. If you don't do this, then Promising uses the calendar and lead time that you set in the approved supplier list for the ATO model.
• If you don't specify the supplier lead time and the calendar in the approved supplier list or in the ATO model, then Promising uses the item's Processing Lead Time attribute and assumes that all times and dates are available in the calendar.

Example

Assume you set up an ATO model named AS54888 Desktop Computer so it has a supplier capacity of 100 units on each day.

-	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5
Supplier Capacity for AS54888	100	100	100	100	100
Consumed	10 (for the AS54888 Big Display)	-	60 (for the AS54888 Small Display)	-	-
Net	90	-	40	-	-
Cumulative	90	190	230	330	430

Note

• Promising uses the requested dates, lead time offsets, and calendars that you set up to determine these demands.
• Promising will consume supplier capacity only from the 100 units for the AS54888.
• The sales orders are for different configurations of the same model, so Promising consumes the 10 units for the big display and the 60 units for the small display from the AS54888's 100 units.