1. Using Order Promising
  2. Source Promising

Source Promising

If you use source promising, then Promising can promise back-to-back 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 back-to-back sales order in these flows:

  • Buy from source without considering supplier capacity

  • Transfer from source

  • Make at source and promise according to lead-time

  • Use available-to-promise supply

  • Don't consider supply capacity

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.

Internal material transfer

Drop ship

These flows aren't compatible with back-to-back promising.

Sourcing assignment according to item

Promising doesn't collect data for an item in a back-to-back flow.

  • For global sourcing, from the item region, item demand class, item customer, or item customer site.

  • For local sourcing, from the assignment for the item organization.

Available-to-promise assignment according to item

Promising doesn't collect data for an item in a back-to-back flow 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 fulfillment 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.