Creating extended demand types in Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility
Some of the Sterling™ Order Management System Software demand types and your custom demand types are not
modeled as demand types in Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility. Therefore, when you create the extended
demand types in Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility for the specified list of Sterling Order Management System Software
demand types, Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility considers the corresponding demands for availability
calculations.
For more information, see Create Extended Demand Type API.
The following table provides a list of extended demand types that you must create in Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility for the following Sterling Order Management System Software demand types.
| Sterling Order Management System Software demand types | Sterling Order Management System Software demand type commitment level | Base Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility demand type from which to extend |
| RESERVED | Promised | SCHEDULED |
| RSRV_ORDER | Promised | SCHEDULED |
| Custom demand types | Promised | SCHEDULED |
| Custom demand types | Uncommitted | OPEN_ORDER |
| Custom demand types | Released | DEMAND_FOR_RELEASE |
For example, for a Sterling Order Management System Software custom demand type with the name
Custom_open_order.ex and commitment level as uncommitted, you can
create a new demand type in Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility with the same name
Custom_open_order.ex, which extends from Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility
OPEN_ORDER demand type.