Business rules

This table allows to declare business rules.

A business rule define an inventory policy for all item-locations belonging to a segment. In this way the maintenance of inventory policies can be done at a high level and in user-friendly way. The inventory policies can still be overridden for individual item-locations if required.

Field

Type

Description

segment

non-empty string

The segment on which the business rule should apply.

business rule

non-empty string

The business rule type.

value

non-empty string

The value associated to the business rule.

description

string

A free text description for the business rule.

priority

integer

Controls the sequence in which business rules are applied.
When multiple rules are all updating the same inventory planning parameter of a certain item-location, the line with lowest priority value will be used.
The default value is 0.