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 majority of cases.
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)
Priority	Any stock, even if it's been allocated elsewhere	Remaining quantity	Urgent orders.
In Stock	Only if full quantity is available	No	One shipment order.
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.