Display and Change Customer Priority Rules

Outcome

A customer's allocation priority is displayed or changed based on several customer-specific factors.

This priority is used to ensure that allocation to "good" customers is prioritized when a shortage of items exists. It is used in batch allocation.

Allocation priority calculations are stored in the MAPRCP file.

Before you start

The settings for batch allocation must be defined. Refer to these documents:

See Batch Allocation Settings

See Basic Batch Allocation Settings

See Settings for Fair Share, Allocation Priority Rules and Allocation Priority with Fair Share

Follow these steps

1. Start 'Allocation Priority. Open' (MMS159).

   On the (MMS159/B) panel, the following information is displayed in a list:

   Sorting order 1: Records per customer (customer is entered in the header), sorted in reverse date order (with the latest record first). The from date and priority value are displayed.

   Sorting order 2: Records for all customers in a specific date range (from and to date can be entered in the header), sorted in customer number order. The from date, customer number and priority value are displayed.

   Sorting order 3: Records for all customers in a specific date range (from and to date can be entered in the header), sorted in descending order of priority. The from date, customer number and priority value are displayed.

2. On the (MMS159/E) panel, the result and calculation used are displayed.

   Note: Only the retrieved value, not the fields used, is displayed.

   The 'Allocation priority' field indicates the calculated value according to the rules set in (MMS124). The value can be changed manually to override the calculation.

   The 'Allocation priority method' field indicates if the values are maintained manually (active=1) or automatically (not active=0).

   Note: The 'Allocation priority' field is only used in 'Allocation. Distribute Quantities' (MMS189).