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Workspace Intelligent Promising
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Created on Oct 16, 2026

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Enable Region-Based Sourcing Priority Rules in Sterling Intelligent Promising (SIP)

Many organizations define fulfillment preferences using business-managed geographic regions rather than individual states or cities.

Current Sourcing Priority Rules require organizations to model these preferences using multiple geographic conditions, which can lead to a large number of rules that are difficult to maintain.

Requested enhancement:

  • Create reusable region definitions.

  • Support regions containing:

    • Multiple states or provinces

    • ZIP/postal code ranges

    • ZIP/postal code patterns

    • Business-defined market territories

  • Allow Sourcing Priority Rules to reference these reusable regions.

  • Allow a single region to be reused across multiple sourcing configurations.

  • Allow region definitions to be maintained independently from sourcing rules.

Example:

Instead of creating separate sourcing priorities for California, Nevada, and Arizona individually, users should be able to define a reusable "Western Region" and create a single sourcing priority rule that references that region.

This capability would reduce rule proliferation and simplify ongoing maintenance.

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

This capability would be used to model business-defined fulfillment preferences at a regional level.

Business users would:

  1. Create reusable geographic regions.

  2. Associate fulfillment preferences with those regions using Sourcing Priority Rules.

  3. Reuse the same regions across multiple sourcing scenarios.

  4. Update regional boundaries without modifying numerous sourcing configurations.

  5. Continue leveraging existing SIP promising and optimization capabilities to select the best feasible fulfillment location.

The final fulfillment decision should continue to leverage existing SIP promising and optimization capabilities.

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