MAS 200 does not have the ability to put inventory on reserve for a customer or sales person. The only way to commit inventory is to enter a sales order. However, it would be nice to reserve inventory for potential sales orders. This would benefit the following people:
Sales - This would give sales the ability to know who is planning on using what inventory
Purchasing - If more inventory is committed than in stock, this would let purchasing know when to reorder before its too late.
Management - If the executives know that $1 million worth of inventory is reserved for a customer, but no sales orders have been confirmed, they can support sales to know what would close the sale.
Customer Service - If customer service replaces product, they will know if they have dipped into reserved inventory.
Overall, I think this would be a great addition that would empower the sales team, increase inventory turns, and help increase the sharing of information between departments.
by: Alex F. | over a year ago | Sales & Distribution
Comments
Yes, Please!
To get around this limitation, our clients have used Virtual Warehouses to hold portions of inventory committed to a specific customer or purpose. They used one of the address fields or a UDF to record the Physical Warehouse that the Virtual Warehouse belonged to. The contact field was used for the salesperson. The Physical Warehouse can be marked with the Virtual Warehouse codes it containes.
Not perfect but it met most of the needs.
Long Live Custom Office and Crystal.
At this time, we enter "fake" sales orders. Problem with this is that they show up on the backorder report. I agree that a "reserve" order would be very helpful.
Another suggestion for Sage would be to have items "On Quote" show up in their own columns so you can see the qty in the pipeline without mixing it with sales order data.