Process: Reserve inventory

 

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Objective

Reserve a block of inventory for an application, thereby making that inventory unavailable for allocation.

 

Description

This process is used to a place a reserve on a block of inventory so that it will not be available to be allocated to orders. A typical use of this process in an inventory system that supports ordering and auctions. The auction subsystem would place a reserve on the inventory, preventing it from being available for orders, at the time of creating the auction. When the auction is won and an order is created, the reservation is released and the block of inventory is used to allocate that order.

 

Features

• Auctions
• Inventory Reservation

 

Edition

Professional, Enterprise

 

Tasks

Task	Description	Role
Reserve inventory	This task creates a reservation of a requested quantity of inventory of a given item from a given fulfillment center for a given store. Following a successful reservation, the reservation number may be obtained. Required parameters are as follows: Requested quantity Itemspec ID Fulfillment-center ID Store ID Reservation type Description (reservation instance)	Operations Manager
Resolve fulfillment center	This task will resolve the fulfillment center for a specified inventory item. The output of this task is a fulfillment center.	Operations Manager

 

Business artifacts

• Inventory item
• Inventory reservation
• Quantity
• Reservation fulfillment center
• Reservation reason

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