Supply types

Overview

Supply types dictate how stock allocation will apply to a sale order line line. If you have stock allocation enabled, the system will use the Allocate supply type by default, unless you have an override defined on the customer card or product location.

Definitions

	Allocate	Back Order	Use Case / Notes
Allocate	Any stock that is available	Remaining quantity	Default. Used in the majority of cases.
Ignore	No	Full quantity ordered	Behaves like stock allocation was turned off. This has several implications. No stock allocation. If you create a shipment, for eg by clicking on the ship button or by auto warehousing, the whole on-order quantity will be extracted to the sale shipment. Sale shipments include everything on order when stock allocation is turned off. This 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) You can set a supply type on all lines of the sales order to Ignore and hit the ship and use the Show In Report to get a Pro Forma Invoice that you can send the customer before you do invoice them.
Priority	Any stock, even if it's been allocated elsewhere	Remaining quantity	Urgent orders.
In Stock	Only allocate if full quantity remaining on order is available	No	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
Back Order	No	Full quantity ordered	Manually control the order processing however still want to increase the stock quantity on hand via purchase run.
Quarantine	No	No	Location for returned stock or over supply of stock quantity for reviewing and processing at a later time.
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.