Managing shipping commitment days

As a fulfillment manager, it is important to have visibility into the on-hand and future availability window for items that are shipped to customers. You might want to consider on-hand availability to ship inventory immediately to fulfill promise dates. Alternatively, you might want to limit the availability windows to fulfill a customer order.

Procedure

  1. Review the different levels where shipping commitment days is supported:
    Tenant
    The maxFutureAvailabilityLookahead attribute that is defined at the tenant level serves as a global setting. The tenant settings are updated to accept the maxFutureAvailabilityLookahead attribute. For more information, see Default tenant settings.
    Estimated delivery (EDD) and CheckoutAssignment APIs
    The maxFutureAvailabilityLookahead attribute can be overridden at the API level. For more information, see the Calculate item delivery or pickup date using finite capacity windows and the Calculate pre-purchase shipment assignments using finite capacity windows optimizing for costs API.
  2. Optional: View the different scenarios that are available for promising shipping commitment days to customers. For more information, see Scenario: Shipping commitment day promises.