Finding product availability

You can review the concepts associated with finding product availability.

Available to promise rules
Available to Promise (ATP) rules enable you to determine the availability of an item for current and future demand. This determination makes the most efficient use of inventory so that items are not set aside for future orders when they could be used to fulfill more immediate demands.
Inventory availability safety factor
The inventory availability safety factor defines a fixed quantity or percentage that is excluded from inventory availability for various purposes. Application of the inventory availability safety factor is controlled at the supply type, node type, item, classification attribute values of an item, and item node definition levels.
Minimum ship-by date
You can specify a minimum ship-by date on an order line during order creation. The order creation process takes into consideration the preferred remaining life span of a time-sensitive item beyond its ship date. The minimum ship-by date is the preferred ship-by date in addition to the requested remaining life of the product.
Sourcing
Sourcing is the process of determining from which node or supplier a product should be shipped.
Calculating expected dates
There are multiple factors that affect expected shipment and delivery dates.
Date synchronization
Dates are synchronized when there is a change in the date for the order line or the order header, and when a rule synchronize dates between master order dates and dates on order line and schedules is configured.
Impacts of sourcing models
Review the information on various sourcing models, and how Sterling Order Management System Software handles each one of them.
Scheduling shipment of an order or order line
Sterling Order Management System Software provides parameters at various levels to ensure that you have the controls you need to schedule or not to schedule an order or order line for shipment until a specific time.
Notification for shipping products
You can look at the documents that are given for communication of shipping information for an order.
Backorder handling
When inventory is not available for an order line, it is backordered. When an order line is backordered it normally needs to wait for scheduling to locate available inventory.

Parent topic: Promising for products being shipped