1. Implementing Order Management
  2. Guidelines for Reducing Inventory

Guidelines for Reducing Inventory

Use these guidelines when you set up Order Management to reduce inventory.

  • Order Management doesn't validate the amount of on-hand quantity that's available in your inventory management system for an inventory reduction. So, make sure your inventory management system correctly reflects the on-hand quantity that's available. If it doesn't, the inventory transaction will fail in Inventory Management.

  • The supply task that creates supply doesn't process the order line that has the inventory transaction. So, make sure you have enough on-hand quantity available for the item to do the inventory reduction even if you set the Back-to-Back Enabled attribute to Yes for the item in the Product Information Management work area.

  • Order Management doesn't send an order revision, or an update to Inventory Management, and it doesn't accept an update from Inventory Management. So, you can fix errors that happen after Order Management successfully sends the order line to Inventory Management only in Inventory Management. You can't fix them in Order Management.

  • You can't use an inventory transaction with a model or a kit. If you must reduce on-hand inventory for a child item in a model or a kit, and if the child is a standard, shippable item, and if you don't need to pick or ship the child, then you can place an order for the child.

  • You can't use a fulfillment tolerance with an order line that has an inventory transaction. Order Management will ignore any fulfillment tolerance for the line.

  • Don't set the Allow Inventory Transaction attribute value to Yes on the order line for sales orders that you create before update 21B. If you import a source order, then don't set the InventoryTransactionFlag attribute to true.

  • You can't use file-based data import (FBDI), REST API, or a SOAP web service to create an inventory transaction for this feature in Inventory Management.

If you opt into the Reduce Inventory When a Sales Order Doesn't Require Picking or Shipping feature, then:

  • You can't opt out of it after you submit a sales order that has an inventory transaction on the order line. At this point, you're committed to using the feature.

  • You can use the Order Management work area to set the subinventory on any order line from the subinventories that you maintain in the Manage Subinventories task, but setting the subinventory doesn't affect how Order Management reserves inventory. You can't use Order Management to reserve the quantity on an order line from the specified subinventory.

  • And if you haven't shipped or fulfilled the order line, then you can use the Order Import web service to remove lot and serial details from the line.

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