Process: Reserve inventory
Flow
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
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