Order-committed reservation based on license plates
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users by admins, makers, or analysts | 
Aug 3, 2020 |
Oct 1, 2020 |
Business value
This feature makes integration with external systems simpler, while also adding flexibility to inventory reservation policies and improving warehouse efficiency.
Feature details
This feature makes it possible to integrate Supply Chain Management with external systems, such as an external load optimization planning service. To improve compatibility between systems, the feature also adds new flexibility to inventory reservation policies, which makes it possible to create order-committed reservations of specific license plates (rather than just at the warehouse level).
To reserve a specific license plate using this feature, you must use its open data protocol (OData) interface. This is primarily intended to support integration with external systems, though you can also interact with the interface manually using a Microsoft Excel add-in.
At the warehouse, the system helps maintain an optimized license plate picking process. Workers scan a single license plate, and the warehouse app instantly identifies the required work order and related picking operations. The system also lets workers pick multiple work-order lines at once from the same license plate, so for example, they can register and ship an entire pallet containing multiple SKUs with just one scan.
To enable this functionality, administrators must set the license plate inventory dimension to Allow reservation on demand order within the relevant reservation hierarchy. To make the functionality available to workers, add a mobile device menu item that uses the Handle by license plate process.
See also
Flexible warehouse-level dimension reservation policy (docs)
Outbound operations (learn)