Reserve Customer Order Lines

Explanation

Use this activity to reserve parts or handling units from inventory for customer order line(s). All customer order lines containing unreserved material are displayed. 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. In addition to reserving with the automatic reservation logic line-by-line, you can do this order-by-order, shipment-by-shipment, or via a batch job. The order-by-order reservation is performed in the Reserve Customer Orders window. The batch job is performed in the Create Customer Order Reservations window. The shipment-by-shipment reservation is performed in the different shipment windows.

If the quantity of an order line is connected to a shipment, the reservation is done per order line and shipment. If the quantity is connected to several shipments, the oldest shipment will be reserved first. The quantities connected to shipments are reserved before any remaining quantity not connected to any shipment is reserved.

Order lines can be reserved manually in the Manual Reservations for Customer Order Line window.

Parts may be reserved from project inventory or standard inventory. A project in IFS/Project can own its project inventory, ensuring that material acquired to this project cannot be issued to fulfill other demands, either from another project or from non-project related demands. Inventory parts that are not owned by a project, belong to a standard inventory. If the customer order line is project-connected, it will be possible for you to reserve the parts from the project inventory or the standard inventory (provided the parts are available in inventory), depending on the supply code entered on the customer order line. But if the line is not project-connected, you can only reserve the parts from standard inventory.

Prerequisites

System Effects

Note that for order lines connected to a shipment, the next event in the shipment flow will be not triggered when you reserve line-by line.

Window

Reserve Customer Order Lines
Handle Customer Order Shortages
Quick Order Flow Handling

Related Window Descriptions

Reserve Customer Order Lines
Reserve Customer Order
Handle Customer Order Shortages
Quick Order Flow Handling
Reserve Customer Order

Procedure

  1. Open the Reserve Customer Orders Lines window.
  2. Select for the order line(s) that you want via the Populate or Query function.
  3. Right-click and then click Reserve.