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When BC is doing a reservation for an Item Quantity in a Sales Order Line, the system is checking what the Item Availability is to be reservable, and then reserve it. There is no control or check regarding any order status.


That would mean that if you create a sales order, related to a specific customer, where you need to be sure to get the quantity available. You are doing the reservation, but if you do not set the status to release for this specific Sales Order, then your reservation could be “”stolen”” by another Sales Order. A reservation would be only a real reservation if the status of the Sales Order is changed to released.


Example:

Initial item availability before entering a new Sales Order: 10 PCE

 

Creating a Sales Order Line with a status Open for this Item with a quantity of 10:

Reserved Quantity = 10

 

Creating a 2nd new Sales Order with a status Open for this same Item with a quantity of 3:

Tried to make a reservation for these 3, but the system doesn't allow it, because the first 10 are already reserved by the 1st Sales Order, although the status of the 1st Sales Order is still Open.


The system should like work like this:

As long as a Sales Order doesn't have a status Released, then the system should allow to make a reservation based on the Item Availability: in this example still 10 since the 1st Sales Order is still open.


Then when I've created the 2nd Sales Order Line with the same item with a quantity of 3 and release this 2nd Sales Order, this should create a hard reservation for this item with a quantity of 3. Then only 7 remain available for making reservations on this item.


So when I try to change the status of the 1st Sales Order to Released with a quantity of 10, the system should do a recheck of the available quantity of this item. Since the availability of this item is = 7 at that moment, the system should only allow a reservation of 7.

 

Category: Inventory
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Thank you for this suggestion! Currently this is not on our roadmap. We are tracking this idea and if it gathers more votes and comments we will consider it in the future. Best regards, Business Central Team