Pack ordered items from multiple facilities

[Paul Robinson-15]

Hi,

Our client has 2 retail locations (each set up as a store and facility)
and one warehouse (set up as a facility), each facility can hold
inventory, the preferred facility for shipment is the warehouse.

However, is it possible to pack an order created by the retail location
from the inventory held the store? A valid scenario, a sales persons
sells an item off the floor rather than what has been packaged in the
warehouse

I have set store up to use the warehouse and tried to set the flag: One
Inventory Facility to No. but this did not seem to make a difference.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Paul

[Jacopo Cappellato-3]

Of course I don't know the details/requirements of your company, but  
you may resolve this in a procedural way: always ship from the  
warehouse but, when you want to sell something from the retail  
location, you can just transfer it to the warehouse so that the  
inventory levels are ok in both facilities.

Jacopo

On Jul 17, 2008, at 1:09 AM, Paul Robinson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Our client has 2 retail locations (each set up as a store and  
> facility) and one warehouse (set up as a facility), each facility  
> can hold inventory, the preferred facility for shipment is the  
> warehouse.
>
> However, is it possible to pack an order created by the retail  
> location from the inventory held the store? A valid scenario, a  
> sales persons sells an item off the floor rather than what has been  
> packaged in the warehouse
>
> I have set store up to use the warehouse and tried to set the flag:  
> One Inventory Facility to No. but this did not seem to make a  
> difference.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Paul

[Paul Robinson-15]

Thanks Jacopo, It can kind of be solved with what you have described.

The problem I have is this: All items are delivered by the business
courier and the delivery driver needs to know where to pick up the stock
- I was hoping to use the pick list for each facility

Some more detail on the Scenario:
Warehouse: has 1 widget in stock
Retail Location: has 1 widget in stock

The Store is set up with the Warehouse as the Inventory Facility; the
system by default will try and fulfill the newly created order from the
Warehouse first - which in most cases is fine, however the sales person
may want to fulfill the order from Retail Location (e.g. the item is
cheap because its damaged) - I can't seem to find a way to control that.
Once the order is created and the inventory is ATP I can't transfer it
to get it on my retail location pick list or to pack it directly from
the Retail Location facility

Any ideas?

Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> Of course I don't know the details/requirements of your company, but
> you may resolve this in a procedural way: always ship from the
> warehouse but, when you want to sell something from the retail
> location, you can just transfer it to the warehouse so that the
> inventory levels are ok in both facilities.
>
> Jacopo
>
> On Jul 17, 2008, at 1:09 AM, Paul Robinson wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Our client has 2 retail locations (each set up as a store and
>> facility) and one warehouse (set up as a facility), each facility can
>> hold inventory, the preferred facility for shipment is the warehouse.
>>
>> However, is it possible to pack an order created by the retail
>> location from the inventory held the store? A valid scenario, a sales
>> persons sells an item off the floor rather than what has been
>> packaged in the warehouse
>>
>> I have set store up to use the warehouse and tried to set the flag:
>> One Inventory Facility to No. but this did not seem to make a
>> difference.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Paul
>
>

[Bilgin Ibryam]

Paul,

If you set the "One Inventory Facility" flag to No, the system will try
to reserve inventory from the first facility in ProductStoreFacility
list that can totally reserve from.
If there is no facility with enough quantity, inventory will be reserved
from the first facility in the list ProductStoreFacility list.

So, If you have another algorithm for reserving inventory from multiple
facilities, you have to modify reserveStoreInventory service.

If there is no algorithm for reservations and the user needs to choose
every time the facility during order creation, you can modify product
view screen in Order Manager and let the user to choose a facility from
a list of facilities for every product. Then pass this parameters to
createOrder service, and then to reserveStoreInventory service to
override the reservation facility.

Just my 2 cents
Bilgin