Examples

You can review the ways that you might use custom segment type functionality for specific situations.

Scenario #1

An order is placed for 5 items for Segment A and the inventory picture is as follows:

Node	Total Supply	Matching Segment A	Unsegmented
N1	10	0	10
N2	5	5	0

Order fulfillment prioritizes segment match and hence N2 is chosen.

Scenario #2

Segment types are configured to use unsegmented inventory. In the following example, if the second order did not consider the demand created for Segment 2 by the first order, it would incorrectly schedule instead of back ordering.

Node	Total Supply	Segment1	Segment2	Unsegmented
N1	15	3	5	7
N2	10	2	4	4

Order1 is placed for 10 items of Segment 2 . Order1 is fulfilled from node N1 with 10 Segmented or Unsegmented quantity and node N2 with 5 Segmented or Unsegmented quantity.

Node	Total Supply	Segment1	Segment2	Unsegmented
N1	10	3	0	7
N2	5	2	0	3

Later, order2 is placed for 16 items of Segment 1. The second order considers the order placed against Segment2 and only finds 15 total inventory available for Segment1, and therefore it is back-ordered.

Note: Since the segmented quantity is not sufficient to fulfill the order, the least unsegmented quantity may not be used. In some situations, unsegmented quantity may be used more than the minimum hence the second-order may contain more back-ordered quantity.

Scenario #3

An order is placed for 19 items for Segment C and the inventory picture is as follows:

Node	Total Supply	Matching Segment C	Unsegmented
N1	10	0	10
N2	5	5	0
N3	5	5	0
N4	10	6	4

Since segmented inventory alone cannot fulfill the order, unsegmented inventory will also be considered to fulfill the order.
Some of the valid options are as follows:

Option 1	Option 2	Option 3	Option 4	Option 5
N4 – 10 N3 – 5 N2 - 4	N3 – 5 N2 – 5 N4 - 9	N4 – 10 N2 – 5 N3 - 4	N1 – 10 N2 – 5 N3 - 4	N2 – 5 N3 – 5 N1 - 9

Option 2 is the best choice since it consumes all the matching segmented inventory. But depending on other optimization parameters like cost, node priority, and so on, any one of the above mentioned options could be selected to fulfill the order.

Scenario #4

An order is placed for 10 items for Segment D, and the constraint Ship Complete is enabled. The inventory picture is as follows.

Node	Total Supply	Matching Segment D	Unsegmented
N1	10	5	5
N2	8	3	5
N3	10	0	10
N4	5	2	3

Since all units have to be shipped from a single location, the only options available to fulfill the order are nodes N1(10 units) or N3 (10 units) after considering both segmented and unsegmented supplies. Order ships from N1 or N3 and avoids back-ordering. If the Ship Complete constraint is not enabled, then the order will be fulfilled by consuming only segmented inventory from nodes N1, N2, and N4.