Some preliminary configuration is related to promising the delivery services that are required with Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation. Most of the basic configuration described in this section is defined by the Enterprise organization. To set up your basic configuration for slot availability inquiries, you must set the following parameters as described:
Sourcing rules control the delivery node selection. If you set this parameter with a value of "Yes", the delivering location is determined based on your sourcing rules setup. If this value is set to "No", any delivery location that serves the "shipping region" can be selected by Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation. If you have organized your delivery locations such that their delivery regions do not intersect with each other, you can set this configuration as "No" and Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation picks up the correct delivering location based on the delivery regions of each node.
If multiple delivery locations could serve the same region and you want to set up sourcing rules for determining the right delivery location, you should set this parameter to "Yes".
Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation uses the Capacity organization parameter as a mechanism for separating capacity definition into distinct silos. All resource pools defined in Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation belong to one, and only one, capacity organization. An organization can use only resource pools that are defined within the same capacity organization as that of the organization. This definition allows Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation to provide complete isolation for organizations that should not share any resource pools.
You should set up your capacity organization so that it refers to the correct silo. An organization can have one and only one capacity organization and services performed by this organization must be scheduled through a resource pool of the same capacity organization.
This parameter controls whether or not the resource pool's capacity is maintained within Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation. This parameter is kept at a capacity organization level and if set to "Y", Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation assumes that capacity for all resource pools should be fetched in real-time during slot availability checks.
A few of the situations when you would want to set this to "Y" are: