| | Allocate | Back Order | Ship
Allowed | Use Case / Notes |
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| Allocate | Any stock that is available | Remaining quantity |  | Default. Used in majority of cases. |
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| Ignore | No | Full quantity ordered | | Behaves like stock allocation was turned off. This has several implications. No stock allocation and autowarehousing will not produce a picking slip for this e.g., displayed stock "never" to be allocated. If you click on the ship button, the whole on order quantity will be extracted to the sale shipment. As sale shipments include everything on order when stock allocation is turned off. Could be used in the case where the customer has their supply type set to Ignore and their order is always drop shipped from the supplier (purchase order raised from sales order) |
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| Priority | Any stock, even if it's been allocated elsewhere | Remaining quantity | | Urgent orders. |
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| In Stock | Only allocate if full quantity remaining on order is available | No | | the The behavior of in stock is only allocate stock if the full quantity remaining on order is available. If full quantity is not available fully back order the item. Allowing users to purchase the whole amount. One shipment per line |
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| Back Order | No | Full quantity ordered |  | Manually control the order processing however still want to increase the stock quantity on hand via purchase run. |
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| Quarantine | No | No | | Location for returned stock or over supply of stock quantity for reviewing and processing at a later time. |
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| Waiting | No | No | | Set by the system if the order has a future "Ship After" date or is waiting on stock from drop shipments or allocated purchases. |
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