Reservations and Allocations Features and Functions

• Reservation days--time fence between soft and hard allocations


• Displays online and in real time resources and inventory that are available in a specific location


• Item balances maintained by grade specifications and lot number


• Available inventory reduced at time of sales order entry


• Customizable rules for reallocating inventory across open orders


• Immediate allocation of inventory quantities to backorders


• Assigns and displays available back-ordered products by location


• Allocates back-ordered items by location according to customizable criteria


• Specifies accounts for which no backorders are to be carried


• Reverses back-order status of inventory upon order rejection


• Users can manually reserve inventory or place it on hard hold for a specific order


• Users assign define criteria for creating reservations and a hierarchy for sequencing them


• Reserved inventory allocation by order account


• Inventory allocation as order is released for ALL orders


• Finds alternative inventory sources if default sourcing link does not satisfy need


• Reserves product and confirms shipping date upon receipt of order


• Allocates material and capacity to orders


• Capacity allocation by individual requirement source


• Creates reserve allocations for items


• User determines how lots will be reserved; oldest lot is automatically reserved first by default


• Picking methods will determine the quantities reserved


• Displays online detailed information about allocations, pegging it to other data


• Users can manually override back-ordered items that have been allocated


• Flags allocated items when quantities fall below reorder levels


• Displays storage limits by warehouse, lot number, or inventory allocation


• Reports actual or impending shortages