Sort Plan
The sort plan functionality was implemented to sort the plan according to the subscriber for batch orders with multiple subscribers contained within the plan.
The sort plan function is defined to sort the plan according to an attribute defined within the order. This function will make sure that products that belong to similar grouping attributes will follow each other in the GUI.
In scenarios where bulk orders for multiple subscribers are submitted into Fulfillment Order Management the subscriber ID will be used as the grouping mechanism. All the order lines will have a UDF defined with the name SubscriberID. Once the entire plan has been generated all the plan items will be sorted according to the value for the subscriber ID UDF. This will ensure that all products for an individual subscriber will follow one after the other. This will be followed by the next subscriber and so on.