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The Business Center is where you define the business policies Solya enforces across your plans. Its core feature is business-logic rules: configurable constraints that Solya evaluates before plan operations — adding an item, validating a plan, or submitting it for approval — so your decisions stay within your policies.

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Rules and rulesets

  • A rule is a single constraint (for example, “a rebalance plan can’t exceed €50,000” or “no more than 20 items per shop”).
  • A ruleset is a named group of rules. You can apply a ruleset to a specific plan, and one ruleset is your organization’s default — used whenever a plan doesn’t specify another.
A rule can belong to several rulesets, and a ruleset contains many rules.

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Enforcement modes

When a rule is triggered, its enforcement mode decides what happens:

Block

Prevents the action entirely — the item can’t be added, or the plan can’t be validated.

Warn

Allows the action but shows a warning so the user can decide knowingly.

Log

Silently records that the rule fired — no interruption to the user.

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What a rule covers

  • Category — the domain it belongs to (capacity, assortment, ordering, transfer, pricing, distribution, compliance).
  • Condition — the logic being tested (a threshold, metric, or value).
  • Scope — which products, shops, brands, suppliers, or taxonomies it applies to.
  • Plan types — which plans it guards: restock, rebalance, markdown, pre-season, supplier return, and supplier exchange.
  • When it fires — the moment in the workflow it is checked (e.g. before adding an item, before validating an item, before changing a plan’s status, or before generating a recommendation).
  • Violation message — the custom message shown when the rule triggers.
  • Priority — the order in which rules are evaluated.

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Rule templates

Solya ships a catalog of ready-made templates you can instantiate and tune, including:
  • Max plan value — cap the total value of a plan.
  • Max plan quantity — cap the total number of items.
  • Max items per shop — limit items per location.
  • Max quantity per variant — limit the quantity for a single product variant.
  • Max plan value per brand — cap value per brand within a plan.
  • Budget (OTB) envelopes — keep spending within allocated budgets.
  • Size-curve rules — enforce size-distribution policies.
  • Markdown-calendar rules — prevent conflicting markdowns.
  • Supplier & return/exchange rules — enforce supplier constraints and return windows.

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Working in the Business Center

1

Open the Business Center

Go to Intelligence layer → Business Center to see your rulesets and rules.
2

Create a ruleset

Create a named ruleset (for example “Strict Q4”), optionally starting from your default rules.
3

Add a rule

Use the rule wizard: pick a template (or start from scratch), set the condition (e.g. a €50,000 threshold), choose the scope, and select Block or Warn.
4

Set your default ruleset

Mark one ruleset as the organization default so it applies wherever a plan doesn’t specify another.
5

See rules in action

As you build plans, blocks and warnings appear directly in the plan’s validation panel, with the message you configured.
Rules evaluate the data Solya holds about your inventory — much of which comes from the data layer. Keeping ingestion healthy keeps rule evaluation accurate.