Purpose

During the redirection of scheduling agreements process, sales orders with a high priority are sourced to a supplier who usually does procurement. Predefined order types for selected customer types are handled with speed-up processing, which allows available to promise (ATP) to use additional sources for immediate referral.

There is a limited number of order types that receive this speed-up handling. For example, sales order types such as emergency, rush, and warranty repair that cover customer types including dealer, distributor, and, inter-company receive this handling. ATP takes the necessary referral action on these predefined customer sales order types.

If rule-based ATP does not find a feasible solution for incoming sales orders, and its priority depends on the order parameters being high enough to trigger an additional rule, an additional step is executed that performs sourcing with respect to scheduling agreements with open releases. If a solution is found, then the normal third-party order processing (TPOP) is executed.

Process Flow

The differences to the standard TPOP process are as follows: