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

Rule Control: Combination of Substitution Lists (2)

Figure 75: Rule Control: Combination of Substitution Lists (2)

To combine substitution lists in rule control, the following sets of parameters need to be
defined:
● Qualified products and locations: The qualified product or location is used to restrict the
substitution list. You can qualify an element in a substitution list (product or location). The
relevant substitution list is then restricted to this element for the combination.
● Combined lists of product and location: You define how the lists generated by the
combination sequence should be combined.
When you apply the combination sequence to the substitution lists, the system always
generates two ordered lists from location products.
For example, when you select the Combine qualified location with all products, then
qualified prod. w. all locs radio button, the first list consists of locations with products and
the second list consists of products with locations.
For the substitution lists, there are two combination options:
- Union: This is the standard setting. If an element from the second list that is not
contained in the first list, then it is appended to the first list.
- Intersection: If an element is not in the second list, then the system deletes it from the
first list.

The Complement of the combination of the product and location list indicator controls whether
the system returns the results list or its complement. The results list is the location product
list generated by the system after combining the location and product lists. If you have set the
indicator, the system returns the complement of the results list.
If a level does not exist for a specific location product, then this location product is not
evaluated.

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