Flexible warehouse-level dimension reservation
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| End users by admins, makers, or analysts |  Jan 27, 2020 |
To be announced |
Business value
Maintain the optimization-focused approach to picking batch-tracked products for routine operations while still being able to set overrides based on customer requirements. Even when a product’s default reservation policy prescribes that decisions on which batches to pick and where to locate them within the warehouse are postponed until the warehouse picking operations start (for example, an optimization-focused approach to inventory stocking strategy), batch numbers for the same product can also be reserved up front for the customer’s order. This functionality removes the need to compromise on inventory and warehouse efficiency for products whose batch number selection for the most part takes place in the warehouse.
Allow workers who take sales orders to respect their customer’s request to reorder a specific batch number. A batch number can be recorded and reserved at the order-taking time by the sales order processor, with no possibility of it changing during warehouse operations or it being committed to another demand.
Feature details
Flexible warehouse-level dimension reservation includes the following capabilities:
Allow reservation of a specific tracking or warehouse storage dimension value for the product quantity on the demand order, when those dimensions are placed below warehouse location in the product’s reservation hierarchy (only batch number reservation on sales orders is supported in the 2019 release wave 2).
Batch numbers as reserved for the sales order are handled by the existing WMS processes so that the committed batch is picked and shipped to the customer.
Support for batch reservation from a sales order against on-hand quantities.
See also
Flexible warehouse-level dimension reservation policy (docs)