This activity is used to reserve the shipment lines i.e. the quantities from order lines connected to the shipment. The quantity of an order 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 customer 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 shipment connected to a consolidated shipment. When reserving automatically, it will try to reserve the quantity from the inventory location with the earliest expiration date or the earliest receipt date. 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 order in the order flow.
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Shipments
Shipment
Lines
Consolidated Shipment
Consolidated Shipments
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Shipment/Shipment Lines
Shipment Lines
Shipments
Consolidated Shipment
Consolidated Shipments
To reserve all the connected order lines:
To reserve all connected order lines, for all shipments connected to a consolidated shipment:
To perform manual reservation of the connected order lines: