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Apr 21, 2014 at 02:44 PM

Sales order and stock reservation

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Hello,

I am not an SD/MM expert and I have the following requirement that I am trying to address:

  • a sales rep meets a client at a trade fair
  • the client shows interest in buying X PC of a product A. He says that, if he confirms his interest, he'll place an order in a month
  • the sales rep wants to somehow reserve (now) these X PC of product A so that it does not disappoint the customer in case he places the order.
  • in case of stock unvailability, the demand should drive procurement
  • in case the customer does not places the order then the stock reservation should be deleted

The modules I have here are SD and MM and I am not sure what's the best way to address this. This is the solution I am thinking of:

  • create a rush sales order where the allocation takes place right at the order entry
  • block the order with a delivery block e.g.: "waiting for customer confirmation"
  • release the block in case of confirmation
  • reject the lines in case the customer does not confirm

is this the solution you would also go for or do you guys have some other ideas? Should I look at MM reservations document instead? Would those help?

thanks

marco