Guidelines for processing large orders

This section describes the best practices and system design considerations that should be taken into account when you have to process orders or shipments that have a large number of order lines.

That number varies depending on many factors, such as order complexity. As a general guideline, we recommend that you consult Sterling Support if you have to process orders that have over 200 lines. These could, for example, be large, planned purchase orders in B2B associations.

Best practices

Customers have used numerous strategies to handle large orders. Some of these strategies are described here for your consideration. Their applicability will, however, depend on your business requirements:

Other architectural considerations

The system design or architectural approaches described in this section typically yield sub-optimal performance when working with large orders: