Partial Shipments

Partial fulfillment of a sales order line can occur when you process orders from the following programs and reports:

• Sales Order Entry (P4210).

• Fulfillment Workbench (P4277701)

• Auto Fulfillment Processing (R4277701)

When you partially fulfill an order line the system issues a warning to inform you that the Fulfillment Management system does not release order lines until the order or line percent is met; or the order line is completely fulfilled.

The system uses a soft warning instead of a hard error to enable it to maintain new and existing soft commitments. This action is critical because it allows the system to:

• Temporarily hold inventory on an order until it can add more inventory.

• Prevent lower priority orders from being fulfilled before orders with a higher priority.

The Release from Fulfillment report (R4277703) does not split partially fulfilled lines when:

• The customer does not allow partial shipments.

• The actual percent filled does not meet or exceed the percent to fill (resolved by the inventory commitment preference) or its service level fill percentages.