ArcherPoint Dynamics Developer Digest - vol 123
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Converting Inventory with Blank Location Code
The team is working on a project to convert inventory from a blank location to using a location code. The issue is that all the sales orders have reservations to inventory, so we need to break that link, convert the inventory, and then create new reservations.
Does anyone have an approach for creating reservations for all open sales lines?
Kyle Hardin posts, “This code can do that. I have a 3PL integration that imports sales orders, so I had to create the reservations from scratch as I create each sales order line:
CLEAR(ReservationEntry);
WITH ReservationEntry DO BEGIN
SETRANGE(“Source Type”, DATABASE::”Sales Line”);
SETRANGE(“Source Subtype”, SalesLine.”Document Type”);
SETRANGE(“Source ID”, SalesLine.”Document No.”);
SETRANGE(“Source Ref. No.”, SalesLine.”Line No.”);
SETRANGE(“Lot No.”, Buffer.Lot);
IF ISEMPTY THEN BEGIN
CreateReservEntry.SetDates(0D, 0D);
CreateReservEntry.CreateReservEntryFor(
DATABASE::”Sales Line”, SalesLine.”Document Type”,
SalesLine.”Document No.”, ”, 0, SalesLine.”Line No.”, SalesLine.”Qty. per Unit of Measure”,
Buffer.Confirmedlotquantity, Buffer.Confirmedlotquantity, ”, Buffer.Lot);
CreateReservEntry.CreateEntry(Item.”No.”, SalesLine.”Variant Code”, SalesLine.”Location Code”,
Item.Description, DT2DATE(Buffer.DMDate), DT2DATE(Buffer.DMDate), 0, 2); // surplus
END; // with
END;
CreateReservEntry = codeunit 99000830
Buffer is just a holding record that I have imported from the 3PL, so you’d need to change those to whatever is appropriate, probably the sales line itself.”
UPDATED: The code snip above didn’t do what Ed needed with the reservations. I used it for importing web orders and didn’t care about reservations, but the code above does deal with item tracking for lots which I did care about.
The team settled on this code:
Set the Reserve Type on the order line to Always
CLEAR(ReservMgt);
ReservMgt.SetSalesLine(“Sales Line”);
ReservMgt.AutoReserve(FullAutoReservation, ‘Auto Reserve Through Batch Function’,
“Planned Shipment Date”, “Outstanding Quantity”, “Outstanding Qty. (Base)”);
Another suggestion was: during a hybrid upgrade, we used dataports to bring out the lot tracking table data and then bring it back in. It seems you could do the same thing and change the location code in the associated tables.
And lastly, the conclusion: The two lines above seemed to work fine on all sales orders. These were straight reservations against Item ledger entries not related to lot or serial number. We had to transfer 17,000 items with quantity on hand to a new location and let all the sales orders re-reserve against the new item ledger entries.
Leadership Lines
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– Conrad Hilton
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– George C. Hubbs
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