The allocation process can be standardized with the help of an allocation rule. Allocation rules can be created when stocks of articles or merchandise categories are always split up among certain sites in the same ratios.

Allocation rules therefore contain the sites among which stocks are to be split and can be valid for a particular merchandise category or article. Allocation rules determine:

• Ratios or quantities in which the stock is to be split
• Site groups and thus the sites among which the stock is to be split
• Merchandise category or articles concerned

Allocation rules can be created in two ways:

• manually online