Ratings

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Ratings quantify how well a candidate sourcing option meets routing objectives. Each rating produces a penalty value that is normalized and weighted. The routing engine aggregates penalties across ratings to compute a final score for each candidate.

Normalization

• Purpose: Ensure comparability across ratings by mapping raw metric values to a normalized penalty range.

• Parameters: minThreshold, maxThreshold, maxPenalty.

• Behavior:

  • If the computed metric value of a routing option exactly equals maxThreshold, the rating assigns maxPenalty.

  • All ratings are uncapped: values above maxThreshold produce penalties greater than maxPenalty, increasing proportionally with the metric value.

  • Intermediate values are mapped proportionally between the thresholds.

  • This normalization ensures that metric differences translate into predictable and comparable penalty effects across all rating types.

Geo distance rating

• Definition: Prefers options with shorter average distance from fulfillment locations to the final receiver.

• Thresholds:

  • minThreshold = 0 km

  • maxThreshold = 1000 km

• Calculation:

  • Consider only transfers that deliver to the final receiver

  • Compute the average distance of those transfers

  • Penalty = (averageDistance / maxThreshold) × maxPenalty

• Notes: Number of items per transfer does not affect the distance calculation

Order completeness rating

• Definition: Prefers options that assign a higher share of order lines within the candidate.

• Thresholds:

  • minThreshold = 0%

  • maxThreshold = 100%

• Calculation:

  • assignmentRate = assignedItems / totalItems

  • Penalty = (1 − assignmentRate) × maxPenalty

• Notes: This rating reflects order completeness and reduces partial fulfillment where possible.

Number of deliveries rating

• Definition: Prefers options that minimize the number of partial deliveries to the final receiver.

• Thresholds:

  • minThreshold = 1 partial delivery

  • maxThreshold = 3 partial deliveries

• Calculation:

  • Count transfers that result in separate deliveries to the final receiver

  • Map the count to a penalty using minThreshold and maxThreshold

  • Penalty = maxPenalty × (number of partialDeliveries − minThreshold) / (maxThreshold − minThreshold)

• Notes: Fewer deliveries reduce customer complexity and operational overhead

Binary toolkit rating

• Definition: Applies binary conditions that must be met or penalized.

• Thresholds:

  • minThreshold = condition met

  • maxThreshold = condition not met

• Examples:

  • Facility tag matches order tag (for example, SalesChannel: Amazon)

  • Carrier capability present for a required service

• Calculation:

  • For each facility within the considered sourcing path that does not meet the condition, the defined penalty is applied once. If the condition is therefore not met by more than one location along the sourcing path, the defined penalty is applied multiple times to the sourcing path.

Total cost (cost component) rating

• Definition: Evaluates the aggregated monetary cost of a sourcing option.

• Thresholds:

  • minThreshold = 0

  • maxThreshold = 50

• Components: purchase prices, shipping costs (optional components)

• Calculation:

  • totalCost = sum(purchasePrices) + sum(shippingCosts)

  • Penalty = (totalCost / maxThreshold) × maxPenalty

• Notes: All cost components must use the same currency. Missing or inconsistent cost data triggers a failure mode that applies the maximum penalty.

Delivery time rating

• Definition: Evaluates the estimated delivery time for the final receiver to receive all partial shipments.

• Thresholds:

  • minThreshold = 0 days

  • maxThreshold = 10 days

• Calculation:

  1. Calculate delivery time per transfer:

     • For each transfer that delivers to the final receiver:

     deliveryTime_i = earliestPossibleDeliveryTime_i − {today}

  1. Calculate weighted average delivery time:

     • Weight = number of assigned items per transfer

     weightedAverageDeliveryTime = Σ(assignedItems_i × deliveryTime_i) / Σ(assignedItems_i)

  1. Calculate penalty:

     Penalty = (weightedAverageDeliveryTime / maxThreshold) × maxPenalty

• Example:

  A sourcing/routing option has 3 transfers to the final receiver. Today = Day 0.

  Transfer	Assigned items	Delivery time (days)
  T1	5	3
  T2	8	5
  T3	2	7

  Step 1: Delivery time per transfer calculation:

  T1: 3 − 0 = 3 days
  T2: 5 − 0 = 5 days
  T3: 7 − 0 = 7 days

  Step 2 : Weighted average delivery time calculation:

  weightedAverageDeliveryTime = (5×3 + 8×5 + 2×7) / (5+8+2)
                               = (15 + 40 + 14) / 15
                               = 69 / 15
                               = 4.6 days

  Step 3: Penalty calculation:

  Penalty = (4.6 / 10) × maxPenalty = 0.46 × maxPenalty