Item-based allocation

Item-based allocation (IBA) is a process that reallocates the uncommitted and committed demands for items of existing orders to more suitable supplies based on user configuration and supply and demand changes in the system.

Sterling™ Order Management System provides two types of item-based allocation options:

  • FIFO prioritization, giving orders that are placed first a higher priority than those placed later.
  • User-configured prioritization based on order attributes, giving the specified orders higher priority than others

When user-configured IBA priorities are not set, or they are set and completed, Sterling Order Management System defaults to system-configured IBA priorities.

This subsequent sections describe both types of IBA.

Note: When an order is an ASAP order, the ETS/ETD will be the current date. If you have initially scheduled it against a PO supply, and you get a better supply before the Purchase Order’s date, but after today, then it will put the order on hold. When it is a delivery order, the ETS/ETD will be the appointment's date. So, it will put the order on hold only if a better inventory is available after the appointment's date.