Information Systems:Order Allocation
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DMCUPALLOC (job name ORDALLOCFL) runs every 30 minutes to perform a fair allocation of stock. A future order will not drop for picking automatically - someone must do it manually. Therefore there is a period between when an item is received and when the waiting order is dropped that another order (regular) can come in and scoop the stock. If the order allocation flag on an item is set to 'Y' no orders are dropped for picking automatically. Web Orders will allow only future orders on item that have the order allocation flag set to Yes – even if there is stock on hand.
Process -
- Drop all orders possible by printing pick lists.
- Set order allocation flag to Yes for regular stock items that have no onhand, but that have open sales orders.
- Re-plan sales orders; this will change dispatch date to today for non-promo orders that have available stock. A sales order cannot be dropped for picking if the dispatch date is in the future.
- Allocate available stock to sales orders for items set for manual allocation.
- Review allocations. Remove lines for held sales orders. Remove allocations where the available stock is less than the outstanding orders. Confirm and drop anything remaining.
- Set order allocation flag to No for regular stock items with onhands, that have no open sales orders.
- If it is Monday to Friday, between 6:30AM and 4:00PM, send alerts if there is anything to be manually allocated. If available stock is less than outstanding orders, a person has to decide which orders to give the stock to. Only run this every other time through (1 hour) to give the user time to do the processing.
Backorders: Out-of-stock item ordered in a quantity exceeding a future shipment.
i.e. Store orders 100, warehouse expecting 50.
When an order is placed for a quantity which is more than we have and more than we are expecting, it has to be allocated/handle manually. Eliza handles the exception (for ALL products). By default, she will usually send all of what we have to partially fill the order, and backorder the remainder. If a customer wants the quantity in its entirety in a single shipment, then she will allocate the inbound quantity accordingly (i.e. to make some available to others and to place some on hold).