Order constraints automatically recalculate your orders to meet vendor or shipping requirements while optimizing the product quantity mix at the same time. Yielding efficiency to the order process.
Typical scenarios for constraints include:
Filling a container or a truck load.
Reaching a supplier minimum order value.
Pre-requisite
To work properly, all items to constrain must have the necessary data in place.
For example, items to be constrained by pallet, must have pallet quantity data.
Creating an order constraint
Click on Orders in the navigation bar
Click on the cube
Click on the plus icon.
Start by giving the constraint a descriptive name
Behavior
Satisfy Constraints: when you want a full truck load or a container, the satisfy constraint is applicable. AGR will calculate the maximum order quantity possible, to reach the constraint but not break it.
Surpass Constraints: when you want to exceed a supplier minimum order value. AGR will calculate the minimum order quantity needed to go above the constraint limit.
Constraints
Select one of the 7 types of available constraints, and set the applicable number in the column to the right “be less than or equal to”
Fill up
Is used for prioritization. The constraint behavior is to take all items and add 1 day of demand until the constraint is broken, it then reverts one day back and uses the fill up to prioritize which items to fill up first.
Save your constraint.
Apply an order constraint
Once you have created an Order Constraint, it will appear in the dropdown menu under the cube.
To apply a constraint, follow these three steps:
Select the item(s) to include in the constraint
Click the cube icon
Select the constraint you would like to apply.
Click on the "i" icon to open a sidebar with more information on the outcome of applying the constraint.
If you want to recalculate the order proposal to what it was prior to the constraint, select all lines and click on the recalculate
Examples of constraints
1. Fill a container
2. Meet a vendor's minimum order value
3. Reach a fixed order volume (cubic meters)
