8.13.6. Allocate Reservations

The Allocate Reservations utility enables you to allocate Inventory to batches of open Sales Orders. This can be a more efficient method for quickly making hard Inventory allocations, as compared to allocating Inventory one-at-a-time at the individual Sales Order Line Item level. You can allocate Inventory to batches of Sales Orders using the following screen:

Allocate Sales Order Reservations

Note

Only Sales Order Line Items that can be completely reserved using actual Quantity on Hand will be affected when this utility is run. If a Line Item cannot be completely reserved, it will be skipped.

When allocating Inventory to batches of open Sales Orders, you are presented with the following options:

Selected Customer

Select to allocate Inventory to an individual Customer's open Sales Orders.

Customer #: Specify the Customer Number of the Customer whose open Sales Orders you want to allocate Inventory to. The browse button located to the right of the field leads to a searchable Customers list. You may also access this list using the keyboard shortcut "CTRL + L". Once a Customer Number is entered, the Customer name and billing address will display. Select the "?" or "$" symbol next to the browse button to view Customer information for the specified Customer. If a Customer's credit is "In Good Standing," the button will feature a black question mark ("?") icon. If the icon turns to an orange dollar sign ("$"), the Customer's credit Status is "On Credit Warning." A red dollar sign ("$") indicates the Customer's credit Status is "On Credit Hold."

Selected Customer Ship-To

Specify the Customer Ship-To Address whose open Sales Orders you want to allocate Inventory to. This is an optional setting which may be used in conjunction with the "Selected Customer" setting. The Ship-To option gives you the added flexibility of being able to assign multiple Pricing Schedules to a single Customer based on separate Ship-To Addresses.

Selected Cust. Ship-To Pattern: Enter a Ship-To Address pattern to select a range of Ship-To Addresses for the selected Customer. Refine your search using Regular Expressions, as described in Section 1.2.9, “Topic: Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions”.
Selected Customer Type: Specify the Customer Type you want to assign a Pricing Schedule to.
Customer Type Pattern: Enter a Customer Type pattern to select a range of Customer Types. Refine your search using Regular Expressions, as described in Section 1.2.9, “Topic: Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions”.
Start Date: Open Sales Orders having a due date on and after this date will have Inventory allocated to them. Start date and end date must be entered for calculation to proceed.
End Date: Open Sales Orders having a due date on and before this date will have Inventory allocated to them. Start date and end date must be entered for calculation to proceed.
Automatically Add to Packing List Batch: Select to automatically add affected Sales Orders to the Packing List Batch.

To the far right of the screen, the following buttons are available:

CANCEL: Closes the screen, returning you to the application desktop.
ALLOCATE: Select to run the batch allocation process, using the specified parameters.
SUBMIT: Select to submit requested action to the Batch Manager for processing. For additional information, see Section 10.5, “Topic: Submitting Reports and Jobs to the Batch Manager”.