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What the Responsive Sourcing Framework Delivers

Configure Sourcing Strategies

FeatureConfigure Sourcing Strategies allows businesses to create rule-based fulfillment logic that optimizes how orders route to locations. By defining specific conditions and ranking criteria, the platform dynamically selects the best fulfillment centers or stores for each order, minimizes order splits, and overrides default profiles to adapt to regional, international, or customer-tier requirements.

Partial Fulfillments and Re-Sourcing

FeatureThe Partial Fulfillments and Re-Sourcing feature provides automated order splitting capabilities and fallback sourcing logic. When a preferred location cannot satisfy an entire order, the platform optimizes real-time re-sourcing decisions using configurable sourcing criteria to route remaining items to alternative locations seamlessly.

Supports Order splitting and Fallback Sourcing logic
Optimizes re-sourcing decisions using configurable Sourcing Criteria

Sourcing Logic Evaluation and Execution

FeatureThe Sourcing Logic Evaluation feature automates real-time processing of routing rules to determine optimal fulfillment nodes for inbound orders. The engine systematically reviews active strategies, filters out inapplicable options, and applies criteria as tie-breakers to rank locations.

Evaluates Sourcing Strategies based on defined Priority.
Skips inactive or inapplicable Sourcing Strategies.
Applies Sourcing Criteria in sequence, with each serving as a tie-breaker to rank eligible fulfillment Location options.

Sourcing Conditions and Criteria Library

Expandable library with predefined functions
Built-in configuration parameters:
- Path
- Operators (e.g., equals, greaterThan)
- Condition Scope (e.g., ALL, ANY)
- Bands
- Thresholds
Support for custom Sourcing Conditions and Criteria via partner extensions

Manage Sourcing Profiles

FeatureThe Manage Sourcing Profiles feature allows businesses to create, update, activate, retrieve, and search centralized sourcing configurations. This capability establishes foundational baseline rules—including default networks, virtual catalogs, and maximum shipment split allocations—and enables teams to reference these profiles directly within automated order fulfillment workflows.

Create, update, activate, get, and search Sourcing Profiles
Configure Default Network, Virtual Catalog, and Max Split values for Sourcing Strategies
Reference Sourcing Profiles directly within Workflows

Source Order Items

FeatureThe Source Order Items capability allows businesses to coordinate how line items are allocated and dispatched across a fulfillment network. This feature enables you to source items to fulfill an order from one or more physical locations, establish strict split limits to manage delivery efficiency, and dynamically reallocate short-picked items to alternative nodes to minimize fulfillment disruptions.

Source items to fulfil an order from one or more locations
Set a split limit for the number of locations that can fulfil an order
Reallocate short-picked items to another location

Framework Usability and Extensibility

FeatureThe Framework Usability and Extensibility feature provides an accessible, transparent, and scalable environment to manage and execute your order routing rules. This framework features a dedicated user experience (UX) tailored for both technical and business users, offers clear visibility into the platform's decision-making process, and supports custom logic developed by integration partners to meet unique business demands.

Dedicated UX for both technical and business users
Transparent configuration and visibility into decision-making
Support for partner-developed custom logic and extensions

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