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Workspace Intelligent Promising
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Created on Jul 23, 2026

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Support custom destination zones (geography groups) as a condition in SIP sourcing rules

IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising (SIP) sourcing rules currently allow conditions to be defined on standard destination attributes such as country, state, city, and postal code, along with other order attributes. However, there is no way to define a custom zone — a named grouping of geographic areas (e.g., a set of postal code ranges, ZIP prefixes, or states) — and use that zone as a condition (LHS) in a sourcing rule.

We request that SIP support the ability to:

  1. Define reusable custom zones as named entities, where a zone is a collection of geographies (postal code ranges, ZIP3 prefixes, states, or a combination).

  2. Reference these custom zones directly as a condition in sourcing rules (e.g., "IF destination is in Zone_Southeast THEN source from Node Group X").

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

In order to support business requirements, we need to model sourcing rules based on custom attributes

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