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Quantity information exists at various levels (such as at item or site group level) in an allocation table. This information mainly involves the quantity each recipient is to receive. It also tells you how much has still to be procured and the exact quantities notified to the sites.

Features

Quantity Information

In allocation tables, a distinction is made between the following quantities:

Planned quantities can be manually entered at a number of different levels (including item, site or site group level). Alternatively, the system can automatically calculate the quantities at item level to be allocated to each site using a site group, an allocation rule or an allocation strategy.

If the sites were notified of the planned quantities as proposals, they can report the quantities they wish to receive. These are entered as requested quantities.

All requested quantities must be confirmed by head office. Either this takes place automatically and the requested quantities are accepted as confirmed quantities or the head office enters the confirmed quantities manually. Confirmed quantities take priority over planned and requested quantities.

If replying with requested quantities has not been defined for the sites, the system adopts the planned quantities as the confirmed quantities as soon as an allocation table item is created.

Minimum and maximum quantities can be entered for every site in the item overview screen. In Customizing for allocation table types, you can configure the system to react in a particular way when the minimum or maximum quantity is not complied with. Depending on the Customizing settings, the system displays either a warning message or an error message or resets the planned quantity to the original threshold value.

This is the quantity to be ordered in order units. If the system optimizes the quantities, the unit of measure can change.

When an allocation table item is created with the goods being delivered from the vendor to the distribution center and then to the final recipients, you can order a quantity from the vendor that is smaller than the total item quantity. You can reduce the quantity ordered from the vendor by the quantity you have in stock, for example. An example of an allocation with a reduced order quantity in combination with merchandise distribution via cross-docking can be found under Allocation: Reduced Order Quantity and Merchandise Distribution.

Units of measure

All quantities in allocation tables, with the exception of the order quantity, are displayed as a standard unit of measure. You can define which unit of measure this should be for each allocation table item, but you can only enter units of measure already defined in the article master. If you do not enter any unit of measure, the system uses the order unit from the article master.

Quantity Calculation

The total quantity of every article to be allocated is contained in the item overview screen. When the system is calculating the quantities to be allocated to each recipient, you can have it optimize the quantities (see Allocation: Quantity Determination in Allocation Tables).

Various methods are available for allocating remaining stock. You can, for example, allocate the remainder to one site, several sites or reduce the total quantity by the remaining quantity.

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