If there are multiple facilities for a store and insufficient
inventory in any facility reserving (back-order) against the first
facility sounds like a good "stop-gap", or default solution.
The problem with the multiple facility thing is that there are quite a
few ways to reserve across facilities and different companies do
things in different ways. Some factors include more central/larger
warehouses versus those closer to the point of sale, or closer to
where the order will actually be shipped, or whatever.
Anyway, I think the change you propose is fine. There is a lot more
work to do in this area to possibly fit the needs of a large variety
of companies, but that will probably be done one company/variation at
a time. With the current design implementors can also write their own
multi-facility reservation routines.
-David
On May 20, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Bilgin Ibryam wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to ask a question about "reserveStoreInventory" service.
> In general this service does the following:
> If the productStore is "oneInventoryFacility" tries to reserve the
> inventory in that facility.
> Otherwise tries to find a facility from ProductStoreFacility list with
> enough quantity to reserve and reserves there.
>
> The bug appears if there is no facility with enough quantities to
> reserve. In this case there is no reservation and the order can't be
> issued/invocied/completed.
>
> I think if there is no facility with enough quantity, the service
> should
> do one of (or a combination of) these 3 options:
> 1. Behave like productStore with "oneInventoryFacility" and tries to
> reserve in the facility associated to the store.
> 2. Take the first facility from the ProductStoreFacility list and
> tries
> to reserve there.(The first one should be ok, because there is
> sequenceNum field)
> 3. Choose a facility from the ProductStoreFacility list, which have
> most
> quantities for the product.
>
> I'd like to add code (a combination of 1 and 2) so that, if the
> productStore has a facilityId reserve there, otherwise choose the
> first
> facility from the list and reserve.
>
> Is it ok this way?
>
> Bilgin
>
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