Order Priority

Order Priority is determined using a number of programs in Enterprise. To describe how the Order Priority is assigned to a Customer, an example is required. Let's assume our Customer has an Order Priority of 12 for Sales Order 123456.

The Sales Order and the Order Priority value can be found in these programs:

  • Display Product Availability (IC45/C5-Stock Allocation).
  • Manual Allocation Override (OM30) .

The following programs and associated settings are used in determining the Order Priority:

  1. The Maintain Customer Master (SU13/Info) for our Customer has the following Order Management Control settings:

    • Stock Allocation Priority = Medium
    • Apply Credit Limit = Yes (checkbox selected)
    • Apply Delinquency Weight = Yes (checkbox selected)

  2. The Company Control Initialization (CC00/Order Entry/Order Management/Priority Weightings) has the following settings:

    • Stock Allocation Priority: High = 1, Medium = 2, Low = 3
    • Priority Order: No = 5
    • Last Shipment: No = 5
    • Delinquent: Yes = 5
    • Over Credit Limit: Yes = 5

  3. The Sales Order 123456 in Enter Orders/Quotes (OE30/General) has the following setting:

    • Priority Order = No (checkbox not selected)

Here is how each of these settings determines that Sales Order 123456 for our Customer has an Order Priority of 12:

  • Our Customer's Stock Allocation priority from SU13 is Medium. From CC00, we know that Stock Allocation Priority of Medium translates to a weighting of 2.

  • The Sales Order from OE30 is not a Priority Order. From CC00, we know that when Priority Order is No, we apply a weighting of 5.

  • This is not the last shipment for this Sales Order based on the fact that our Customer does accept Back Orders and/or the date is not nearing the Cancellation Date (both from the Sales Order in OE30). From CC00, we know when Last Shipment is No, we apply a weighting of 5.

  • Our Customer is set up to include the priority for Delinquency in SU13, but our Customer is not Delinquent. From CC00, we know when Delinquent is No, we apply a weighting of 0.

  • Our Customer is set up to include the priority for Over Credit Limit in SU13, but our Customer is not Over their Credit Limit. From CC00, we know when Over Credit Limit is No, we apply a weighting of 0.

  • When we add up all of these weightings we arrive at an overall Order Priority weighting of 12: 2 + 5 + 5 + 0 + 0 = 12

 
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