RE: Reserving Stock

[Rhearl@xxxxxxx]

Dan's method of entering an allocatable quote or entering a Sales Order with a 
Suspend Code that is set-up to allocate will work, as will the other methods 
listed below. If you don't wish to enter a dummy order (or quote), then either 
freezing the stock or moving it to a stockroom reserved for a customer or group 
of customers would be good choices. If you don't need to set up and use too 
many stockrooms, then I would lean towards using the stockroom method and the 
Out and In Stock Transfer and not the Freezing/Un-freezing because it requires 
only one user transaction vs. 2 for the freeze/thaw scenario. If the majority 
of the items for one of these special customers would be set aside in the 
"reserved" stockroom, then the SOP Customer Master stockroom default could be 
changed to the reserved stockroom.


Ray Hearl
Infotech Strategies
513-225-8299
rhearl@aol.com 


In a message dated Tue, 27 Jun 2000  5:19:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Dan 
Thomas <DThomas@lpw-mdi.com> writes:

<< We use the Quote function in Advanced Order Entry to reserve inventory.  You
have to put a '2' in the VAT field of QTNO (quote type) in Inventory
Descriptions INP15 to tell JBA to allocate inventory on the quote.  It's
worked very well for us.

Dan Thomas
Sr. VP Information Systems
MDI
4500 Progress Blvd.
Louisville, KY  40218-5058
Phone (502) 454-9013 ext. 120
www.mdiweb.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Don Murphy [mailto:murphydon@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 3:29 PM
To: JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Reserving Stock


Hi All,

There is no official way of squirelling away stock.... and maybe that's a 
good thing but as we know sometimes customers make us do the wrong thing!

Here are a few ways I found over the years. Each has draw backs...
1. Move the stock to frozen using the inv trx. Use the narrative in an 
agreed fashion (else mod IN009 to force it) for later reporting / tracking.
2. Move the stock to a sep warehouse (by customer).
3. Create a dummy sales order and allocate the stock to the order but leave 
a long delivery time. You would need however to have a long allocation time 
fence.
4. Create a dummy sales order against the customer again with a protracted 
time fence as per 3 above. Depending on your org this may make the stock 
easier to track.

Regards


>From: "Neil Thursby" <neil.thursby@whessoe-vapour.com>
>Reply-To: JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com
>To: <JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com>
>Subject: Reserving Stock
>Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:29:18 +0100
>
>We briefly looked at this area, and found you can put a flag against an
>order suspend code which leaves the allocation in place.    Maybe worth a
>look?
>
>Neil Thursby.
>
>
>Whessoe Vapour Control Limited
>Tel 44 (0)1325 301100
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