Defines independent demands for items.
These can be actual customer orders, or forecasted demands.
Fields
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| name | non-empty string | Unique name of the demand.
This is the key field and a required attribute.
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| description | string | Free format description. |
| category | string | Free format category. |
| subcategory | string | Free format subcategory. |
| owner | demand | Demands are organized in a hierarchical tree.
This field defines the parent demand.
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| members | list of demand | Demands are organized in a hierarchical tree.
This field defines a list of child demand.
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| quantity | double | Requested quantity. |
| item | item | Requested item. |
| location | location | Requested shipping location.
This field can be left blank if there is only a single
location in the model, or if a delivery operation is
specified on the demand or the item.
|
| due | dateTime | Due date of the demand. |
| priority | integer | Priority of the demand relative to the other demands.
A lower number indicates higher priority.
The default value is 0.
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| operation | operation | Operation to be used to satisfy the demand.
If left unspecified the operation on the item will be
used.
New in version 3.0: If no operation is specified on the
demand or the item, frePPLe will automatically try to create
a delivery operation for the requested item and location.
A data error is created when we this isn’t possible.
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| customer | customer | Customer placing the demand. |
| status | string | Status of the demand. Possible values are “open” (default), “closed”, “canceled” and “quote”. |
| detectproblems | boolean | Set this field to false to supress problem detection on
this demand.
Default is true.
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| maxlateness | duration | The maximum delay that can be accepted to satisfy this
demand.
The default value allows an infinite delay.
Use a value of 0 in businesses where the customer will
not accept a late delivery and cancel his order in such
a case.
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| minshipment | positive double | The minimum quantity allowed for the shipment
operationplans that satisfy this demand.
If this field is not specified, we compute a default
value as round_up(quantity / 10). This means that we allow
the demand to be met only with at most 10 partial deliveries.
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| constraints | list of problem | This field returns the list of reasons why the demand
was planned late or short.
The field is export-only.
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| hidden | boolean | Marks entities that are considered hidden and are normally not shown to the end user. |