Use Inventory Sharing Backorder Evaluation (I80)

Purpose: Use this screen to indicate whether to reserve backorders strictly according to backorder priority and order age, or to reserve orders in the shared company (where you actually maintain the inventory) first.

Yes/no field: Select this field if you want to reserve backorders across all companies that share inventory based strictly on B/O priority and age, regardless of the company where the order was taken. When evaluating order detail lines across all sharing companies, the system checks the information in the Order Detail table, and uses the following hierarchy:

1. Select the order detail line with the highest B/O priority.

2. If there is more than one order detail line with this B/O priority, select the line with this priority and the earliest entered date and entered time.

The EBO_ASYNC background job performs backorder evaluation and reservation; see Working with the EBO_ASYNC Job.

About B/O priority: B/O priority is a one-position, numeric field. An order line with a priority of 9 should be reserved first, and an order line with a priority of zero should be reserved last.

The B/O priority defaults to the order detail line from the order header if a priority is specified on the order header. Similarly, the B/O priority defaults to the order header from the source code, if a priority is specified for the source code. You can override the B/O priority at any of these levels.

Entered date and time determined how? The earliest entered date and time are based on when the item was first added to the order, either in order entry or order maintenance, and so are not necessarily the same as the date and time that the order was first entered. The entered date and time are not updated when you update an existing order detail line.

Note: If you use inventory sharing and would like to use the hierarchy described above when reserving backorders, select this value in the shared company (that is, the one where you actually maintain the inventory). Leave this value unselected in each company that shares the inventory.

Leave this field unselected if you want to reserve backorders first within the shared company (that is, the one where you actually maintain the inventory), and then within sharing companies. The system uses the same logic as described above, except that it reserves all backorders first within the shared company, and then begins to evaluate additional sharing companies only after all backorders in the first company are reserved.

Note: The EBO_ASYNC background job reserves backordered order detail lines based on changes in inventory levels, such as receiving purchase orders. If this system control value is selected, the system writes a single EBO_ASYNC data queue record for the shared company (the company where you actually track the inventory) when reserving any backorders, regardless of how many backorders are being reserved and in which companies. If this system control value is unselected, the system writes a separate EBO_ASYNC data queue record for each company where it reserves a backorder. See the Display Evaluate B/O Data Queue Screen for more information on reviewing EBO_ASYNC data queue records.

For more information: See Inventory Sharing (A69).