Backorders, allocations and fill-rate reporting

Elements

The pieces this function usually contains in a large organisation:

• Backorder queue
• Allocation priorities
• Fill rate by customer and item

Catalog items that already cover part of it

• Backorder tracking TKT-0039
• Supplier performance report (store side) CONN?-0229

What is not described

fill-rate and allocations.

Classification

Status

Present partially

Fit

Core candidate

Suggested module

INV: Inventory, Products & Purchasing

Suggested attributes

Lite and Pro; priority Standard; always offline. Starting points only.

Cluster

Distribution, supply chain and wholesale

Public excerpts

domain analysis

Archetypes and companies

Foodservice and broadline wholesale distribution; Consumer-goods makers and bottlers; Healthcare and pharmaceutical distribution.

Example companies in these archetypes: Sysco, US Foods, Performance Food Group, McLane, Core-Mark, C&S Wholesale, Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola bottlers, Kraft Heinz, Anheuser-Busch, McKesson. These come from general knowledge unless a source code is shown on the archetype page; it is not a statement that each company runs every element, and it implies no relationship.

Closest industry pages

• Wholesale food and grocery
• Wholesale: diversified, building and industrial supplies
• Wholesale electronics, office and technology distribution
• Household and personal products
• Beverages, brewing and bottling
• Food production and processing
• Health care wholesale and distribution
• Medical products, supplies and devices
• Pharmaceuticals and biotech

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Status is a hand review against catalog names and descriptions and can be wrong. See the method.