When is a commutative monoid with its natural order "continuous"?

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Let $A$ be a commutative monoid and define its natural preorder by:

$$x\leq y :\Leftrightarrow \exists k\in A: x + k = y$$

Assume $\leq$ is antisymmetric.

What kind of "obvious" properties can one assume such that: $$ \bigvee_{i\in I} (x_i + y) = \bigvee_{i\in I} x_i + y$$ whenever these suprema exist?

Note that in any case we have: $$\bigvee_{i\in I} (x_i + y_i) \leq \bigvee_{i\in I} x_i + \bigvee_{i\in I} y_i$$

so the question comes down to when the other inequality holds.


Movitaion: The above property is necessary to show that “continuous monoids” are “complete”.