Hello,

Currently, Business Central allows the consumption of a reserved component from production order A for production order B. This creates a situation where, at the moment of posting consumption for production order A, the user receives an error stating that the inventory previously reserved is no longer available in stock. During the process of consuming the component for production order B, the user does receive a message indicating that they are attempting to consume a component reserved for production order A, and after accepting this message, they are able to complete the operation.

Since the situation described above concerns one of our key clients, we reported the issue to Microsoft as urgent. However, they believe the system is functioning correctly and that this is essentially the cost of greater system flexibility. They argue that the user can still cancel the reservation and use a different component for production order A.

In our opinion (Nav24), this situation means that a reservation is not truly a reservation, because the system allows the consumption of a reserved component without requiring its cancellation. We would like to emphasize that if there are multiple users in the company, this effectively results in “stealing” the component, as the entire situation occurs without the knowledge of the user and the owner of production order A.

We would like to hear your opinion on this matter. Do you or your clients believe the system is functioning correctly and that reservations work properly in this case? How do you and your clients handle such situations in companies with multiple users performing these operations? Do you think Microsoft should make reservations stricter?