Fulfillment strategies

When a supplier creates a shipper, the line items on the shipper are used to fulfill the current schedule. The ship quantity is subtracted from the outstanding quantity due.

When a new schedule is published, fulfillment can be carried forward to the new schedule based on the owner-defined customer characteristics. The characteristics "Line Item Definition" and "New Schedule Fulfillment" are used to determine if and how fulfillment is applied to the new schedule.

Line Item Definition

"Line Item Definition" determines how shipments are broken into line items on shippers. Fulfillment can be carried to a newly published schedule only if the new schedule contains "matching requirements," or requirements that match line items on the shipper.

The options for Line Item Definition include:

  • Part Only. Each part is given a unique line item. The new schedule must have requirements for the part on the shipper.
  • Part and Pull Signal. Each part and pull signal combination is given a unique line item. The new schedule must have requirements for the part and pull signal combination on the shipper.
  • Part and PO.Each part and PO combination is given a unique line item. The new schedule must have requirements for the part and PO combination on the shipper.

If there are no matching requirements on the newly published schedule, fulfillment cannot be applied and the shipper is not used to fulfill any demand.

New Schedule Fulfillment

The options for "New Schedule Fulfillment" are explained below.

  • None. When new schedules are published, fulfillment is not carried to the newly published schedule.
  • Staged Shipments. When new schedules are published, line items on staged shippers are used to fulfill matching requirements on the new schedule.
  • In-transit Shipments and Staged Shippers. When a new schedule is published, line items from all shippers and ASNs for which a shipment has not yet been received are carried over to fulfill the newly published schedule. This includes staged shippers that have not yet been published as ASNs and ASNs for shipments not yet received (considered to be in-transit).

    To indicate which ASNs are still in-transit, customers must send receipts and include the shipper ID of the most recently received shipment in the Material Release or Shipping Schedule API file. Shipments are considered in-transit if these are true:

    • A corresponding receipt has not been sent against the shipment.
    • The sent date on the ASN is after the sent date of the most recently received shipment as indicated by shipper ID in the release API.
  • Classic. When new schedules are published, all fulfillment from the previous schedule is applied to matching requirements on the newly published schedule based on date. As long as the requirement date exactly matching the requirement date on the previous schedule, the fulfillment is moved forward regardless of staged shipper or in-transit status.