Overlapping reasons for stock point blocking

Inventory blocking functionality supports these methods to handle multiple manual blockings for the same stock point:

• The total blocked inventory quantity is determined by the largest blocking record. This implies that all blocked quantities are treated as ‘overlapping’ and that the maximum blocked stock point quantity is equal to the inventory quantity of the largest block.
• If inventory blocking records do not overlap, the sum of the blocked quantities must be used. A new blocking record is added to the available blocked quantity, which increases the total blocked inventory quantity of the stock point.

The Allow Overlapping Stock Point Blocking check box has been added to the Warehouse Master Data Parameters (whwmd0100s000) and Warehousing Settings by Site (whwmd2101m000) sessions. Additionally, the Default Blocking Behavior field has been added to these sessions, which can be set to Overlapping or Not Overlapping. The setting of this field determines, in the Stock Point Blocking (whwmd6130m000) session, whether a new blocked stock point quantity is overlapping or not. Similar functionality is available for the blocking process of serial numbers.