Product Reallocation Entry overview

Product > Entry > Reallocation

Function acronym: ICEAR

Use this function to manually adjust inventory allocations for sales orders and warehouse transfers that are in Stage 1-Ordered or Stage 2-Picked.

These are limitations to how this function is used:

  • Sales orders that are suspended are not eligible for reallocation.

  • You cannot change quantities for serial or lot products. Use Sales Order Entry or Sales Shipping Feedback Entry for serial or lot product changes.

  • Work order transactions for kits can be displayed, but not adjusted.

  • If you have activated the catch weight functionality, catch weight products cannot be specified as criteria. An error message is displayed: Catch Weight Product Not Allowed - ICSP (5638). Reallocation of catch weight product inventory from one order to another can cause problems with keeping order and product inventories in balance.

When a specific order line is accessed, the future availability of the product is displayed by date. Future availability considers these factors:

  • Both existing orders and demand, including kit components, outgoing warehouse transfers, kit production, tally, value add orders,
  • Projected receipts, including pending purchase orders, incoming warehouse transfers, kit production and value add orders

This applies to any product or kit component regardless of the product’s reservation type. Any changes to shipped quantities cause corresponding adjustments to the warehouse product’s reserved or committed amounts in Product Warehouse Product Setup.

You can ensure that a sufficient quantity is available, by date, for any orders that require firm shipment schedules. You can also evaluate the expected product levels that are required in the near-term future. You can modify the shipped quantities, based on current information and pending receipts to change the inventory reserved.

Restrict access to this function to only those individuals that are responsible for overriding inventory allocations and making reallocation decisions. In addition to function security, an operator must have the ability to change an order’s shipped quantity. This is based on the SA Operator Setup setting for the Allow Quantity Shipped Override in OE option.

The incoming pending receipt quantities include these products:

  • Products on pending purchase orders or blanket release purchase orders
  • Products on incoming warehouse transfers
  • Products to be fabricated through Value Add
  • Pre-built kit products to be built through Kit Production
  • Kit components to be disassembled from pre-built kit products through Kit Production

These outgoing sales orders and warehouse transfer, through the picked stage, can be reallocated or re-prioritized:

  • Built-on-demand kit components on sales orders
  • Products on sales orders not tied to a Service Warranty repair order (SRO) parts line
  • Tally component lines on sales orders
  • Parts lines on an SRO, tied to a sales order
  • Products on outgoing warehouse transfers
  • Components to be used in the fabrication of a Value Add product
  • Kit components on a KP work order
  • Kit components to be used to build a pre-built kit product through Kit Production
  • Pre-built products to be disassembled through Kit Production
Note: If you receive a time-out system error when running Final Update on a large number of records, you can enable batch call processing. When you select Use Advanced Polling Interface Logic for Designated Service Interface Calls in SA Administrator Options-System-General, you can select the ICEAR Final Update-icearupdate service interface call from the Available Advanced Polling Calls list.

With this service call selected, when you select rows to process for Final Update in Product Reallocation Entry, the batch process is initiated. The batch process runs outside of the normal Service Interface calls,which must complete within a system timeout limitation of one minute. Batch call processing allows the time required to process numerous records selected for Final Update to complete without timeout errors.