1. Using Order Promising
  2. Source Promising

Source Promising

If you use source promising, then Promising can promise orders without collecting data for the item, supply, or demand. Promising gets this data directly from the supply and demand data in your supply chain.

Promising can schedule your sales order in these flows:

  • Transfer from source

  • Use available-to-promise supply

  • Drop shipments

And specifically for your back-to-back flow:

  • Buy from source without considering supplier capacity

  • Make at source and promise according to lead-time

If the flow isn't back-to-back, then Promising:

  • Recognizes purchase orders, work orders, and transfer orders as supply for your available-to-promise rules
  • Won't provide a make supply or buy supply recommendation for source promising

Flows That You Can't Use

You can't use source promising for these flows that rely on item availability.

Feature, Setup, or Flow

Why You Can't Use It

Supplier capacity

Promising views supplier capacity as infinite.

Substitute each item according to each customer

Supplier lead time and supplier calendar

Supplies for planned sales orders

Sourcing according to each option

These flows are specific for each item.

Sourcing assignment according to item

Promising doesn't collect data for an item in:

  • Global sourcing. From the item region, item demand class, item customer, or item customer site.

  • Local sourcing. From the assignment for the item organization.

Available-to-promise assignment according to item

Promising doesn't collect data for the item or the item's organization.

You also can't use back-to-back promising with unlisted, infinite availability or lead time promising.

For details about collecting, see Collect Data for Global Order Promising.

Web Services and REST API

Oracle Order Management and Oracle Global Order Promising use a unique set of values to identify and manage the order line and other attributes on the sales order. If you use Order Management, and if you use source promising, then you can't use a web service or REST API to schedule or cancel a sales order through your own application. You must make these changes only through Order Management. This is necessary to make sure these values remain accurate.

If you don't use Order Management, then you can use a web service or REST API to call Global Order Promising and promise your sales orders from your own ordering system.

For details and examples, go to REST API for Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud, then expand Supply Chain Planning.