Contents

• Title and Copyright Information
• Get Help

1 Overview

• What's New in Using Order Promising
• Overview of Global Order Promising

2 Administer Promising

• Do Various Tasks
  • Collect Data for Global Order Promising
  • Set Up Your Items in Product Information Management
  • Set up Geography for Promising
  • Import Planned Orders
  • Get Promising Dates in Real Time
  • Set Up Calendars for Carriers
  • Manage Promising Profiles
• Manage Supply
  • Temporarily Reserve Supply While Shopping or Quoting
  • Include Over the Counter Transactions When You Promise
  • Split Order Lines When Supply Meets a Threshold
  • Use Cutoff Times to Control Your Shipments
  • Add Lead Time So You Can Pick and Pack
  • Manage Supply After the Promising Horizon Expires
  • Promise Only After You Release Holds On Lots
• Allocate Supply in a Hierarchy
  • Allocate Supply in a Hierarchy
  • Get Supply from a Node's Parent
  • Get Supply from a Node's Parents, and Then Its Siblings
  • Use Lower Priority Supply to Fulfill Higher Priority Demand
  • Guidelines for Allocating Supply in a Hierarchy
  • Allocate Supply Through REST API
  • Allocate Supply Through FBDI
  • Use REST API to Adjust Allocation Percentages
  • Adjust Your Allocation Quantities
  • Allocate Supply in Source Promising
• Use the Order Promising Work Area
  • Overview of the Order Promising Work Area
  • Define Goals for Measures in the Order Promising Work Area
  • Edit Your Page Layouts
    • Page Layouts in the Order Promising Work Area
    • Manage Page Layouts
    • Create Tables, Graphs, and Tiles in the Order Promising Work Area
    • Set Your Axis Scale

3 Set Up Your Promising Rules

• Overview
  • Assignments and Rules
  • ATP Rules
  • Promising Modes for ATP Rules
  • Allocation Rule
  • Sourcing Rule
• Lead Time Mode
  • Guidelines for Using Lead Time Mode
  • Set Postprocessing Lead Times
• Supply Chain Search Mode
  • Guidelines for Using Supply Chain Search
  • Set Attributes on Your Supply Chain Search
  • Time Fence
  • Past Due Demand and Supply
• Allocate and Assign
  • Allocate Your Rules
  • Set the Target
  • Prioritize Your Allocation Rules
  • Consider Shipping History
  • Assign Your ATP Rules

4 Source Your Supply Chain

• Source Your Supply Chain
  • Source Your Supply Chain
  • Create Sourcing Rules
  • Create Sourcing Rules That Source According to Quantity and Supplier
  • Bills of Distribution
• Assign Your Sourcing Rules
  • Assign Your Sourcing Rules
  • Specify Catalogs for Assignment Sets
  • Set Your Assignment Levels
  • Consider Your Sourcing Hierarchy and Assignment Set Hierarchy
  • Create an Assignment Set
  • Use Spreadsheets to Edit Assignment Sets
• Update Your Data
  • Update Data for Your Rules
• Bills of Resources
  • Overview
    • Overview of Using Bills of Resources with Promising
    • Guidelines for Creating a Bill of Resources
    • Create a Bill of Resources
    • Consider Your Lead Times
    • Use Work Definitions with Your Bill of Resources
    • Create Bills of Resources When You Build in More Than One Organization
    • Import Your Bill of Resources Through REST API or File-Based Data Import
  • Components and Materials
    • Use Different Components, Materials, and Resources Depending on Start and End Dates
    • Vary Type and Rate of Consumption for Components, Materials, and Resources
    • Consume Resources Only After Components Are Available
    • Use Alternative Resources and Substitute Components
    • Specify Lead Times for Your Assembly Operations
• Configured Items
  • Promise Your Configured Items
  • Include Resources for Configure Options
  • Schedule Options on More Than One Level of an Assemble to Order Item
  • Exclude Options and Option Classes for Configured Items
  • Include Supplier Capacity When You Promise ATO Items

5 Manage Demand

• Overview
  • Overview of Managing Demand
  • Get Details About Demand
  • Examine Shipment Sets and Arrival Sets
• Check Availability
  • Check Availability
  • Refresh Results
  • See How Promising Estimates Availability
• Use the Availability Results
  • Get the Results You Need
  • Create Alternative Fulfillment Scenarios to Reduce Cost
  • Split or Substitute Fulfillment Lines
  • Examine Availability Dates
  • Why Is My Inventory Different From What's Available?
• Try Different Options
  • Try Different Availability Options
  • Select and Schedule
  • View Availability Details
  • See What Supply is Available and Allocated

6 Set Up Fulfillment Flows

• Drop Ship
  • Promise Sales Orders in Your Drop Ship Flow
  • Use Check Availability to Simulate Fulfilling Your Sales Order
• Back-to-Back
  • Promise Sales Orders In Your Back-To-Back Flow
  • How Promising Promises a Back-to-Back Sales Order
  • Set Up Promising to Support Your Back-to-Back Flow
  • Keep Global Order Promising and Inventory Management Synchronized
• Transfer
  • Promise Sales Orders in Your Transfer Flows
  • How Promising Promises a Transfer Order
  • Set Up Promising to Support Your Transfer Flow
  • Collect Transfer Orders for Expense Destinations

7 Use Database Promising or Source Promising

• Database Promising
  • Database Promising
  • Manage Order Promising Options
• Source Promising
  • Source Promising
  • Use Source Promising in Your Back-to-Back Flows

8 Troubleshoot

• Overview
• Troubleshoot Setup Problems in Order Promising
• Troubleshoot Performance Problems in Order Promising