Sales orders

Defines independent demands for items.

These can be actual customer orders, or forecasted demands.

Field	Type	Description
name	non-empty string	Unique name of the demand. This is the key field and a required attribute.
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.
members	list of demand	Demands are organized in a hierarchical tree. This field defines a list of child demand.
quantity	double	Requested quantity.
item	item	Requested item.
batch	string	Blank/unused for make-to-stock items. For make-to-order items, it identifies the material batch that can be used to satisfy the demand. This field can be set to the sales order name (true make-to-order production), or it can be set an item attribute (eg color of the 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.
operation	operation	Operation to be plan to satisfy the demand. When left unspecified, frePPLe will automatically create a delivery operation for the item and location combination.
customer	customer	Customer placing the demand.
status	string	Status of the demand. Possible values are “open” (default), “closed”, “canceled” and “quote”.
maxlateness	duration	The maximum delay that can be accepted to satisfy this demand. The default value allows a delay of 5 years. Use a value of 0 in businesses where the customer will not accept a late delivery and cancel his order in such a case.
minshipment	positive double	The minimum quantity allowed for the delivery orders that satisfy this demand. If this field is not specified, we compute a default value as round_down(quantity / 10). This means that we allow the demand to be met only with at most 10 partial deliveries.
constraints	list of problem	This field returns the list of reasons why the demand was planned late or short. The field is export-only.
hidden	boolean	Marks entities that are considered hidden and are normally not shown to the end user.