Once you have defined your sourcing rules and bills of distribution, you must assign them to particular items and/or organizations. These assignments are grouped together in assignment sets. This is where your various sourcing strategies define a particular supply chain network.

Each assignment set to represents selection of organizations and/or items you want planned. To influence the planning process, you must include an assignment set in your plan options.

In an assignment set can assign your sourcing rules and bills of distribution at different levels, as follows:

• An item across all organizations

• A single item in an inventory organization

• All items in an inventory organization

• Categories of items

• Categories of items in an inventory organization

• All organizations

These levels allow you to assign a replenishment rule to as many or as few items as possible. For example, a category of items could be defined as packaging material, and a sourcing rule that identifies the suppliers could be assigned.

To assign a sourcing rule or bill of distribution

1. Navigate to the Sourcing Rule/Bill of Distribution Assignments window.

2. Enter an assignment set name and description.

   Note: The assignment specified in profile option MRP: Default Sourcing Assignment Set is the only one used by Oracle Purchasing for its processing

3. Select an Assigned To type See: Assignments Hierarchy.

   Note: You can assign a sourcing rule or bill of distribution to a category only if you have updated the profile option MRP:Sourcing Rule Category Set. See: MRP:Sourcing Rule Category Set

4. Enter an organization name, if the Assigned To type requires one.

   Note: You cannot assign customers modelled as organizations to a global sourcing rule

5. Enter the name of the customer to which you want to assign a sourcing rule or bill of distribution.

6. Enter the specific site to which you want to assign a sourcing rule or bill of distribution.

7. Enter an Item/Category if you selected Item or Item-Org as the Assign To type.

8. Enter the sourcing rule or bill of distribution as the Type.

9. Enter the name of the sourcing rule or bill of distribution.

10. Save your work.

To purge a sourcing rule or bill of distribution:

1. Select an assignment set name.

2. Choose Purge.

See Also

• Sourcing Rules and Bills of Distribution

• Reviewing Source and Destination Organizations

• Viewing Sourcing Rules

• Viewing Bills of Distribution

• Viewing Sourcing Rule and Bill of Distribution Assignments

• Viewing the Sourcing Assignment Hierarchy

• Displaying an Indented Where Used

• Displaying an Indented Bill

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