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Unit 7: Rules-Based Availability Check in Global Available-to-Promise (Global ATP)

Key Field

Figure 86: Configuration: Access Sequence Free Key Fields

You can assign the following access types to a key field:

● Fixed key field: You have to define values in rule determination for fields to which you have
assigned the “Fixed key field” access type.
● Free key field: You have to define values in rule determination for fields to which you have
assigned the “Free key field” access type. However, you also have to assign a priority to
these fields.

The system can also use the access type to define a rule if no suitable values have been
transferred for free key fields from the sales order if the following conditions apply:
● The values in the fixed key fields match the values from the sales order.
● You have not defined values for any of the key fields that do not match the values from the
sales order in rule determination.

The Fixed key field access type is automatically assigned to all key fields of the access at the
start.
● This priority controls the way in which the system makes a unique selection from the
condition records found during access with free key fields.
● The system only evaluates the condition record with the highest priority. If the key for a
condition record contains a large number of high-priority fields, the system is more likely
to evaluate the condition record.
● You can assign values from 01 (very high priority) to 99 (very low priority) for the priority.

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