Committed Items still show as stock on hand...

Posted by ozzie on October 3, 2005, 6:31 pm

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...but shouldn't.

The problem is, an order is made up for a customer. They may order several
items, but may not pick up their order for a week or two. But we have their
order sitting there ready to go the moment they walk in the door. The
problem is, even though these items are committed, they remain seen as stock
on hand, and the reorder trigger doesn't seem to fire. Essentially, all the
stock could be in made up orders with nothing left on the shelf, but the
Purchase Order wont care as we have heaps of stock on hand! So far the only
way I see around this is a lot of manual mucking about with order entries
etc.

Shouldn't we have the option to treat committed items as no longer being
considered stock on hand? I would think this would be an easy modification
to add in.

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Posted by ozzie on October 3, 2005, 10:33 pm

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Something strange here...I noticed that I had items on order. Where the
items not committed but otherwise on hand and the number of items ordered
(but not yet recieved) are greater than the reorder point, it wont generate
an order. But if I commit more items such that the number on order + number
on hand but not committed < reorder number, it will generate a purchase
order.

To me, this behaviour seems peculiar and inflexible. I would much rather
have more control over the inventory than that, rather than being tied down
to arbitary rules set by a third party.

"ozzie" wrote:

> ..but shouldn't.

> The problem is, an order is made up for a customer. They may order several

> items, but may not pick up their order for a week or two. But we have their

> order sitting there ready to go the moment they walk in the door. The

> problem is, even though these items are committed, they remain seen as stock

> on hand, and the reorder trigger doesn't seem to fire. Essentially, all the

> stock could be in made up orders with nothing left on the shelf, but the

> Purchase Order wont care as we have heaps of stock on hand! So far the only

> way I see around this is a lot of manual mucking about with order entries

> etc.

> Shouldn't we have the option to treat committed items as no longer being

> considered stock on hand? I would think this would be an easy modification

> to add in.

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