Re: Split Shipping

[David E Jones <de...@me.com>]

There is some code OOTB to select among multiple Facilities associated with a ProductStore, but in most cases where an organization has multiple facilities it is necessary to customize this. This basically does the inventory reservation across multiple facilities.

The order itself should NOT be split into multiple ship groups for the different facilities. The ship groups are setup by the customer and represent different sets of items to ship to different addresses or by different carrier services.

Shipping from different facilities is a matter of picking/packing/shipping based on inventory reservations in each Facility. The result will be multiple Shipments, one per Facility-ShipGroup combination.

-David


On Jul 31, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Paul wrote:

> Hi List, 
> 
> I have, I think somewhat uncommon order fulfilment situation and looking for
> tips on how to best address the same. 
> 
> The scenario includes a primary warehouse to ecommerce store with a set of
> secondary region specific warehouse. The business rule is to fulfill from
> primary warehouse in all cases unless it is out of stock. The corner case is
> even if an order has a partial set of items unavailable in primary
> warehouse, the remaining should get addressed by primary warehouse. The
> pending items are then free to be fulfilled by any of the regional stores.
> Let  me take an example for clarity. 
> 
> A order has 2 line items namely a) Tiny Gizmo b) Large Widget. Now Tiny
> Gizmo is available with primary warehouse and therefore should be fulfilled
> right away. Large widget is out of stock in primary warehouse. However, one
> of the regional warehouse say in north does have stock and therefore should
> ship Large widget. No stock transfers between warehouse as it is expensive
> given the distance and time. 
> 
> My understanding is that this should be possible by splitting the shipment.
> Are there other alternatives? 
> 
> If I do choose the split shipment approach, from the order screen, am able
> to create another ship group. However, don't see the unfilfilled items in
> the newly created shipgroup. Clicking on the edit order option also does not
> provide a way to modify the ship group for the item. Should I go ahead and
> implement the same, or are there better ways to do this?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Ray
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Split Shipping

[BJ Freeman <bj...@free-man.net>]

I may have missed the code, but as far as I can see
productstore.reserveInventory
productstore.oneInventoryFacility
are only used to verify that Quickship can be used.
productstore.reserveInventory is not used to deal with multiplefacilites.

productstore.oneInventoryFacility
only return
productstore.inventoryFacilityId
if set to Y
otherwise has no effect.

maybe the code has changed from original intent.

David E Jones sent the following on 7/31/2011 3:41 PM:
> 
> There is some code OOTB to select among multiple Facilities associated with a ProductStore, but in most cases where an organization has multiple facilities it is necessary to customize this. This basically does the inventory reservation across multiple facilities.
> 
> The order itself should NOT be split into multiple ship groups for the different facilities. The ship groups are setup by the customer and represent different sets of items to ship to different addresses or by different carrier services.
> 
> Shipping from different facilities is a matter of picking/packing/shipping based on inventory reservations in each Facility. The result will be multiple Shipments, one per Facility-ShipGroup combination.
> 
> -David
> 
> 
> On Jul 31, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Paul wrote:
> 
>> Hi List, 
>>
>> I have, I think somewhat uncommon order fulfilment situation and looking for
>> tips on how to best address the same. 
>>
>> The scenario includes a primary warehouse to ecommerce store with a set of
>> secondary region specific warehouse. The business rule is to fulfill from
>> primary warehouse in all cases unless it is out of stock. The corner case is
>> even if an order has a partial set of items unavailable in primary
>> warehouse, the remaining should get addressed by primary warehouse. The
>> pending items are then free to be fulfilled by any of the regional stores.
>> Let  me take an example for clarity. 
>>
>> A order has 2 line items namely a) Tiny Gizmo b) Large Widget. Now Tiny
>> Gizmo is available with primary warehouse and therefore should be fulfilled
>> right away. Large widget is out of stock in primary warehouse. However, one
>> of the regional warehouse say in north does have stock and therefore should
>> ship Large widget. No stock transfers between warehouse as it is expensive
>> given the distance and time. 
>>
>> My understanding is that this should be possible by splitting the shipment.
>> Are there other alternatives? 
>>
>> If I do choose the split shipment approach, from the order screen, am able
>> to create another ship group. However, don't see the unfilfilled items in
>> the newly created shipgroup. Clicking on the edit order option also does not
>> provide a way to modify the ship group for the item. Should I go ahead and
>> implement the same, or are there better ways to do this?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Ray
>>
>>
>>
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> 
> 

Re: Split Shipping

[BJ Freeman <bj...@free-man.net>]

I use the manufacturing routing to make rules for inventory amd multiple
facilities.


Paul sent the following on 8/1/2011 4:58 AM:
> Thanks David for the hint. Will look into multiple shipments rather than ship
> groups. You are right we would need to customize the reservation part since
> there are some more rules in terms of inventory reservation based on the
> type of goods. Knowing where to start though is very useful. 
> 
> Also see that product store can have multiple associated warehouse and also
> support for a hierarchy of warehouse (in a parent child sort of way) which
> perhaps can be exploited to implement a primary warehouse and if there is
> not enough stock then look at any of the child warehouse associated based on
> some custom logic. 
> 
> Thanks a bunch. 
> Ray
> 
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Re: Split Shipping

[Paul <pa...@gmail.com>]

Thanks David for the hint. Will look into multiple shipments rather than ship
groups. You are right we would need to customize the reservation part since
there are some more rules in terms of inventory reservation based on the
type of goods. Knowing where to start though is very useful. 

Also see that product store can have multiple associated warehouse and also
support for a hierarchy of warehouse (in a parent child sort of way) which
perhaps can be exploited to implement a primary warehouse and if there is
not enough stock then look at any of the child warehouse associated based on
some custom logic. 

Thanks a bunch. 
Ray

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