Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation enables you to define an inventory availability safety factor that indicates what percentage of current or future inventory should be excluded during order promising.
For example, you may consider that your Planned Purchase Order supply is less reliable than your In Transit supply for order promising. Therefore, you may want to exclude 60% of the Planned Purchase Order supply type when promising, as opposed to 10% of the In Transit supply type.
By default, fractional quantities are not truncated. That functionality can be turned off by modifying the yfs.install.displaydoublequantity property in the <INSTALL_DIR>/properties/customer_overrides.properties file.
The behavior is as follows:
To modify, enable, or disable the inventory availability safety factor:
A Safety Factor Percentage or Quantity specified for an individual item overrides values specified for a supply type.