Source products and materials from multiple vendors
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users by admins, makers, or analysts | 
Dec 1, 2022 |
Feb 21, 2023 |
Business value
The COVID pandemic has highlighted the need for resilience in the supply chain to succeed as a business. Diversifying the supply network helps businesses be agile and responsive to changes. Automatic vendor selection based on predefined split ratios helps secure improved supplier resilience.
Feature details
Planning Optimization now supports multivendor sourcing by allowing you to establish vendor sourcing ratios that are applied during master planning. For example, you could set a rule to ensure you will purchase 70 percent of materials from Vendor X and 30 percent from Vendor Y.
Planning Optimization benefits
With Planning Optimization, companies can benefit from:
- Significantly improved performance and scalability with in-memory processing.
- Minimized system impact on other processes made possible by running master planning as a separate service.
- Near-real-time insights into requirement changes, achieved by running master planning several times daily during office hours.
Learn more about Planning Optimization
For more information about the Planning Optimization migration process and answers to frequently asked questions, see Migration to Planning Optimization for master planning.
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See also
Increase your supply resilience with multisourcing in Supply Chain Management (blog)