Reserve Unreleased Orders

There may be times that you want to reserve supply manually before a sales order is released to the warehouse for shipping.

For example, an unforeseen emergency can generate demand spikes that quickly drive your on-hand quantities below what's required to meet demand. Using the Manage Reservations and Picks task, you can manually reserve supply before the sales order is released to the warehouse for shipping. You can also manually reserve transfer orders that route through Oracle Fusion Cloud Order Management.

When reserving unreleased orders, you can:

• Search reservations for unreleased orders on the Manage Reservations and Picks page. Use the Order Interface Status search parameter to query these orders.

• Manually reserve unreleased orders with various supply types, such as on-hand inventory, purchase orders, work orders, and transfer orders on the Create Reservations page.

• Manually edit or delete reservations on the Create Reservations and Edit Reservations pages.

• Purge excess reservations for unreleased orders using the Purge Excess Inventory Reservations scheduled process.

• Use the enhanced Inventory Reservations REST resource to manage reservations for unreleased orders.

  Here are some important limitations:

• When an unreleased order is canceled or unscheduled, you must manually delete the reservation or run the Purge Excess Inventory Reservations scheduled process to delete reservations against canceled lines or unscheduled lines.
• The file-based data import (FBDI) process doesn’t support reservations of transfer orders.

Order Interface Status

Search reservations for unreleased orders on the Manage Reservations and Picks page. Use the Order Interface Status search parameter to filter these orders. Values for the Order Interface Status field include:

• Awaiting release to shipping or inventory

• Released to shipping or inventory

Sales orders and transfer orders interfaced to Order Management are considered as unreleased orders if the sales order is in a scheduled status and awaiting release to shipping or inventory. You can manually create, edit or delete reservations for the orders awaiting release to shipping or inventory. You can also transfer supply for reservations with an Order Interface Status of Awaiting release to Shipping or Inventory.

The Order Interface Status field doesn't appear by default in both the search and search results sections of the page. Select Add Fields in the search area to add the field to the page. In the search results section, select View > Columns > Order Interface Status.

Purge Excess Inventory Reservations Process

Run the Purge Excess Inventory Reservations process to purge excess reservations for unreleased orders. Change management for scheduled order lines which are awaiting release to shipping or inventory isn't automated. Therefore, manually-created reservations for scheduled order lines when canceled or unscheduled, don't automatically delete. Use the Purge Excess Inventory Reservations scheduled process to delete these reservations.

REST

You can also use the Inventory Reservations REST resource to manage reservations for unreleased orders. Use the DemandSourceHeaderNumber attribute to pass the order number or transfer order number. Use the DemandSourceLineNumber attribute to pass the FulfillLineId to create reservations against the order lines that are awaiting release to shipping or inventory.

Important Notes

Important notes about reserving unreleased orders:

• You can't use the file-based data import (FBDI) process to reserve transfer orders.

• The Review Item Supply and Demand page doesn't support unreleased order demand.

• The Transfer Reserved Quantity action on the Manage Reservations and Picks page is disabled for orders awaiting release to shipping or inventory.

• You can't edit reservations for the canceled or unscheduled order lines of unreleased orders, but you can delete them.