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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 1, 2022

Capacity support for carrier services

- Ability to define capacity restrictions at carrier service level along with time slot offerings- Capacity restriction example: 10 orders/lines/units on specified days for "Next Day Delivery" at "Store A" and 15 orders/lines/units on specified days for "Standard Delivery"- Time slot example: 10 orders/lines/units on specified days for "2 Hour Delivery" at 10-12, 12-2, 2-4, 4-6- Note: This could be extension of existing node capacity but segmenting node capacity by SHP/PICK and then broken down further by carrier services- Note: Ideally PICK should consider multiple service levels also for future handling (e.g. Pick - Standard, Pick - Next Day etc)

What is your industry? Retail
How will this idea be used?

Improve usefulness of SIP to retailers