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Lesson: Setting Up Rules-Based Availability Check in Global Available-to-Promise (Global ATP)

● Chain
● Fan-shaped structure
● Network
● List
● Alternative

The list type is for determining a primary location if a step is called from a system that does
not support or determine locations itself (for example, a CRM system). It is also required for
the multi-item single delivery location function.
The alternative type is for definition of alternative locations for excluded substitute locations.
You have to assign a determination type to each new location determination procedure which
you create. The procedure type defines the possible combinations of location and substitute
location.
If you define the supersession chain as the procedure type, then you have to enter the
required substitute location directly below the original location in the list. If you select the fan-
shaped structure or the network as the location determination procedure, then you have to
specify several substitute locations for one location in the same field. The substitute
sequence is controlled by costs in the control parameters.

Location Substitution – Activity Control

Figure 71: Location Substitution – Activity Control

You create new location determination procedures on the Maintain Location Determination
Procedure screen.
You can further restrict location determination by defining a specific validity period for each
entry in the substitution list. During a check, this period is then evaluated with the requested

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