This activity is used to reserve inventory parts you need for a Request Work Task. To make sure that the material is available, you can allocate the required material physically. When you reserve or make an allocation, no one else can issue the material. The status of a Request Work Task determines what can be done with material requirements. You can reserve material if the Request Work Task status is set to Released or higher. In order to reserve material, the required quantity has to be available in inventory.
You can choose to reserve material manually or automatically. If you reserve material manually, you can select the quantity you need. You can also select the inventory location from which the materials are issued. You cannot do this if you were to automatically reserve the material. When manually reserving the material, select the material line and click Reserve Manually. Enter the quantity you want to reserve from the selected inventory location. You can see the number of parts available in the inventory.
It is possible to reserve material that are serially tracked or not. For parts that are serially tracked, you can select which serial is to be reserved. When automatically reserving the material, select one or more material requisition line(s) you want to reserve and click Reserve. The selected records will be updated accordingly. You can only reserve material automatically if the material is not serially tracked. Non-inventory registered material should be processed through requisitions on requests that create their own purchase orders.
Note: If a material line is not selected in the table, it will not be considered for manual or automatic reserve. Further, the unselected material lines will not reflect changes that may occur in parallel.
Manual Reservation and Reserve Materials assistants can also be used to create a transport task to move the material. If the executed-by user has a default warehouse and the user reserves material outside the default warehouse, a transport task will be created to move the material to the default warehouse. It is also possible to move material to another location by typing a location number in the Location No field.
As a result of this activity, an inventory part is reserved and available for a request at the required time. The number of parts reserved will be displayed in the Quantity Reserved field.