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Q1A global electronics manufacturer is implementing constrained supply planning for a key component sourced from two suppliers with different costs and lead times. Supplier A is cheaper but has a limited monthly capacity defined in the system. Supplier B is more expensive but has unlimited capacity. The business requires the plan to prioritize the cheaper supplier up to its capacity limit before sourcing from the more expensive one. How should an implementation consultant configure the sourcing rules and plan options to achieve this cost-optimized, capacity-constrained sourcing strategy?
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In a constrained supply plan, the planning engine respects both sourcing ranks and supplier capacity constraints. By ranking the cheaper supplier (A) as 1 and defining its capacity, the engine will allocate demand to it until the capacity is fully consumed. Only then will it move to the rank 2 supplier (B) for the remaining demand. This is the standard method to model capacity-based overflow sourcing.