Reserve Shipment Lines

Explanation

This activity is used to reserve the shipment lines i.e. the quantities from source lines connected to the shipment. The quantity of a source line can be connected to several shipments in parallel in order to handle a limited transport capacity, a backorder situation where you want to prepare the next delivery in advance, a customer requiring a certain delivery schedule etc. You can reserve this quantity on the shipment lines either manually or automatically. Reserving the shipment lines manually means that you decide how many parts will be reserved. You can also choose from which inventory location the parts will be picked, regardless of what is stated in the source order. As manual reservation is done online, you can ensure that the parts are available and reserved immediately. However, you cannot reserve more parts than stated in the shipment line. Reservations may be changed at any time until a pick list has been generated. Apart from making a manual reservation, you can also un-reserve or change the reservation for parts already reserved. 

The automatic reservation on the other hand will enable you to reserve many lines at the same time either per shipment or per shipments connected to a consolidated shipment. The reservation will be done according to the automatic reservation logic i.e. according to rules configured for FIFO, zone ranking, handling units etc. This is described in detail in the About Reservation Management. When reserving many lines at the same time, the system automatically reserves a number of parts as compared to manual reservation where you decide how many parts to reserve. A consolidated shipment is defined as a single departure of several shipments from the specified site, to all the delivery addresses of the connected shipments. When reserving from the consolidated shipment, it will be like reserving per shipment but for all connected shipments. The connected shipments will be reserved in load sequence order to prepare what is next to be loaded first.

Note that shipment lines will also be reserved when you do the reservation for the source line from the source object.

Prerequisites

• The shipment must have Preliminary status.
• At least one of the shipment lines must have a remaining quantity to reserve i.e. a quantity not already reserved, picked or delivered.
• The parts/handling units must be available in stock. Note that created transport tasks with destination move to inventory, can be considered as available to reserve depending on configuration on the site.

System Effects

• The shipment lines with a remaining quantity to reserve, will be reserved for the shipment.
• When the shipment is reserved automatically, a shortage will occur when the full quantity of a shipment line cannot be reserved.
• When the shipment is reserved automatically, the optional events defined to happen at reservation in the shipment type will be executed.
• When the shipment is reserved automatically, the shipment type decides if the shipment flow should proceed to the next event.
• If reservation from created transport task is enabled and material from a created transport task is reserved, then the system tries the best to keep the reserved material on the same transport task. This will be possible when you have complete handling units on the transport task or when the entire stock record is included on the transport task, otherwise the reserved material is removed from the transport task.

Pages

Consolidated Shipment
Consolidated Shipments
Shipment
Shipment Lines
Shipments

Activity Diagrams

Create Shipment
Automatic Reserve Customer Order