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Order constraints

Order constraints help you meet vendor order and shipping requirements

Updated over 6 months ago

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

  1. Click on Orders in the navigation bar

  2. Click on the cube

  3. 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:

  1. Select the item(s) to include in the constraint

  2. Click the cube icon

  3. 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)

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