Defining Sourcing Strategy

You can specify sourcing strategies on the following levels of aggregation:

  • Planning cluster level
  • Item group level
  • Item level (See To search sourcing strategies).

Use the following procedure to enter a sourcing strategy on cluster level:

  1. Enter the planning cluster in the Planning Cluster field.
  2. Leave the Item Group field empty.
  3. Leave the Item field empty.

Use the following procedure to enter a sourcing strategy on item group level:

  1. Optionally, enter a planning cluster in the Planning Cluster field.
  2. Enter the item group in the Item Group field.
  3. Leave the Item field empty.
Note: 

If a plan item has no valid supply strategy, LN uses the following values by default:

  • Priority rule: Priority
  • Allocation rule: Percentage

You can specify different rules for external and internal suppliers.