Back order treatment

Back orders in Dynamics Ax, and their treatment leaves a lot to be desired, basically the most advanced functionality availeable is to allow good to be reserved before arrival in order that the system automatically places a physical reservation against the stock that has arrived when it arrives.

There is nothing intelligent to allow the treatment of a complete shipment of goods that is arriving to see which orders could best be fulfilled from the newly arrived shipment, there is even no function to allow one to automatically plan some shipment actions aside from the above mentioned one.


What would I propose is needed, well basically a linkup with the proposed allocation system that I have discussed earlier where it would be possible to allocate whole sales orders and treat them as units, that is reserve all the items or none. Conversely I see the need to be able to take whole purchase orders or even multiple purchase orders treat them, that is recieve the goods count QC check etc then when a pool has reached a certain size to allow allocation to happen against the pool.

Of course by judicious usage of a dedicated warehouse and Ax transfer functionality one could argue that one could acheive something along these lines. However the inconvenient thing is that one would have to create several new warehouses and the consequences of having stock in several "virtual" warehouses and also leaving traces everywhere is that not only is it harder to visualize where your stock at any one time is but also it is creating a trail of new inventsum records which means all stock and inventory checking reports become slower etc etc.

It would not be complicated to add some more stati in the inventory model and conversely to add some more inventmovement steps that could be configured, actually both on the incoming side as well as the outgoing side this could be of interest.

And these could then be configured by the user to be skipped or they could represent QC steps and or allocating, free for allocation steps.

It would cost very little to maintain if done by MS centrally rather than having to be added by a dealer or a customer.

What do you think.

/Sven