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Order routing is one of the important module modules of the ecommerce supply chain. Order Routing is basically a means to deliver the order to the customer as fast as possible in a cost-effective way. An effective Effective order routing is possible with a set of business rules. These rules can be tweaked as per the retailer’s requirement. Fenix has built its own order-routing engine and is , helping customers to route their orders across their multiple fulfillment centers.
Fenix supports some important allocation rules for optimized order routing. These rules can be prioritized and can be chosen which rule should be applied before another. A user-friendly rules screen will help the business user to change the rules, prioritize, and add/remove them with ease and any change that is easily. Any changes made to the rules will effect be effected immediately.
DC Priority Rule
This rule is for those retailers who ships ship multiple DCs and stores and want to prioritize the DCs before the stores. The reason why the retailers prefer shipping from stores may be due to multiple factors like belowthe following.
DCs has have more inventory.
DCs has have more service coverage to fulfill the orders.
Inter-transfer of inventory can happen between the DCs, which makes the DCs highly available.
Sort Rule
This The sort rule will prioritizes prioritize the locations based on the distance of the fulfillment center to the buyer or the available quantity at the fulfillment center. This rule is a generic rule that can be added as a nested rule under, let’s say, the DC Priority rule or can be added as a main rule itself. In the former case, only the DCs will be prioritized based on the criteria, and in the latter case, the rest of the stores will be prioritized.
Split Shipments
A fast-selling SKU may get the inventory deplete depleted in all warehouses, and such a situation may arise, ; the SKU’s request requested quantity may not be available in one single location. In such cases, enabling this rule will make sure ensure the same SKU gets split into multiple locations for fulfillment. However, the caveat is that this may increase the number of shipments. So, the retailers can add a max split criteria which restrict restricting the number of fulfillments a SKU can be split into.
Minimize Shipments Rule
This rule, when enabled, will try to minimize the number of shipments for an order. The rule looks at the inventory position of all the SKUs in the cart and tries to pick a location which that can fulfill the order as a whole.
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Fenix automatically picks the location shipping from, which makes the ship shipping cost the lowest. By this default rule, the retailers can be confident in trusting trust the Fenix-suggested shipping location to route their orders.
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