Overview of Reservations and Picks

Availability and promise of delivery is vital for any business. You can guarantee availability by creating linkages between the supply and demand sources by using reservations and picks.

A reservation is an association between a demand source and a supply source to ensure availability. A reservation creates a data link between supply and demand and represents a guaranteed allotment of material to a specified demand source. A pick is a directive to move material for a particular demand from one specific inventory location to another location.

Both reservations and picks ensure that material for a demand isn't available for another demand to be reserved or picked from. You can transfer reserved inventory from one demand or supply source to another, but you can't pick reserved inventory for another demand source. Use the Manage Reservations and Picks page to view snapshots of reservations and picks on a single page. This helps in reserving or picking for a demand.

For example, when a request to reserve material for a sales order is placed, and enough available to reserve quantity exists for an item, a reservation is placed. This reservation ensures that a certain quantity of item is available on a certain date when transacted. Once reserved or picked, the product can't be picked for another sales order or issued out from inventory.

With the Manage Reservations and Picks page, you can:

• Create, edit, delete, and view reservations and picks

• Choose available quantity for reservations and picks

• Reserve material for a customer without the order information using user-defined reservations

• View the material consumption picture for an item, a particular customer, a particular order, or a combination of these

• Transfer reservations from one supply (or multiple sources) to another, or one demand (or multiple demands) to another

• Specify the reservation controls such as lot, revision, subinventory, and locator

• Check the on-hand and available to reserve quantities