Inventory commitmentInventory commitment allows you to reserve inventory for specific orders. Committed inventory is not available for other orders. You can also cancel inventory commitments, if required. In addition to the inventory commitment method, you can also use the allocation and hard pegging functionality to allocate inventory to orders, provided that this functionality is in use in your organization. For more information, refer to Demand pegging overview. Inventory commitment generation or creation In general, you can generate or create inventory commitments for orders of the origins that result in a warehouse order of inventory transaction type Issue. However, some exceptions exist:
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Commitment for sales orders For manually created or generated inventory commitments for sales orders, LN takes into account the Minimum Quantity to Commit and Minimum Rate for Commitment as specified in the Items - Sales (tdisa0501m000) session. Based on the values of these fields, LN determines the quantity to commit. You cannot update inventory commitment for sales orders if:
Creating buffers In LN you can reserve inventory, that is not (yet) specifically assigned to an order, by creating an inventory buffer or an allocation buffer. Allocation buffers are available if the allocation and hard pegging functionality is used. For more information, refer to Demand pegging overview. In the Inventory Commitments (whinp2100m000) session, to create an inventory buffer or an allocation buffer, create a new inventory commitment with order origin Inventory Buffer or Allocation Buffer, respectively. You can directly commit inventory that is reserved by an inventory buffer to an order line in the Consumption of the Inventory Buffers (whinp2202m000) session. For further information on allocation buffers, see Allocation buffers. Updates after changing the inventory commitment orders If you change an inventory commitment, the Committed field in the Warehouse - Item Inventory (whwmd2115s000) session is updated with the changes in the committed quantity. In the Item Inventory (tcibd1500s100) session, the Committed field is updated with the changes in the committed quantity. If the order origin is Sales Order the Committed Quantityin Order Unit field in the Sales Order Lines (tdsls4101m000) session is updated with the committed quantity Issue of committed inventory If you generate or create an outbound advice for an outbound order line with committed inventory, LN increases the Inventory Committed in Process in the following sessions with the part of the committed quantity that is advised:
If you issue committed inventory and finish the outbound procedure or the shipment procedure, LN decreases the Committed Quantity in Order Unit and Inventory Committed in Process with the issued committed inventory. When LN decreases the Committed Quantity in Order Unit and Inventory Committed in Process depends on the warehousing order type:
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