One line for a product on a sale order can result in multiple lines for the same product on the resulting sale shipment

Overview

Stock allocation is turned on at almost all sites. Provided this is the case, then:

When you click the pick button, or when the pick button is automatically triggered for a sale shipment. Readysell splits the sale shipment lines for each product according to how much stock is in each location for that product. If there is enough stock to cover the entire quantity being shipped for that product in just one location. Then just one line needs to be added to the shipment from the order line for the product. If the quantity required is split across more than one location. Then for each line of the product on the sale order. Many lines may be added to the sale shipment. Until a sufficient number of lines for the product have been created on the sale shipment to use up the stock in the various locations and supply the stock for that sale shipment.

The warehousing system is trying to empty locations so that they can be freed up, instead of being filled with just a few items. So Readysell always picks from the location with the least stock first.

Primary product locations do not affect picking. The primary location is the default location used when putting stock away from a receipt, with nothing to do with picking sale shipments.

Procedure

Example

If you order ten of a product and one location for that product contains one hundred. Then the sale shipment line will be for that location and cover the whole order.

If you order ten of a product and there is still one hundred in stock. But it is split over many locations, where none of the individual locations contains more than ten. Then Readysell will find the location with the smallest quantity on hand and use that up first. Then it will keep making more sale shipment lines, using up the locations with the smallest quantity of stock on hand. Until it has split enough sale shipment lines to supply the whole ten required.

Taking the second example above to the extreme. If you had a sale order for ten, with one hundred in stock. But say five locations only contained 1 of the product and the rest was in a sixth location. The sale shipment would have six lines. Five lines use up the single quantities in the locations with the smallest stock of the product. Then a sixth line for the last five is required from the location with the large quantity of the product.

Note: While there is a system reference to trigger sale shipment lines to either sort in the same order as the related sale order lines or to sort by location. That system reference has no effect on splitting sale shipment lines.