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Inventory Allocation Engine

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How do I get started?

Click Get started, then use Proto to configure Inventory Allocation Engine for your business. Pilot a reviewed request against known opening lots and held quantities, then rehearse reservation, posting and a failed completion check before expanding the item range.

How does the supervisor use a channel policy?

Inventory Supervisor reviews the channel, priority rank and safety-stock guidance before deciding the requested quantity. Agree how the clerk communicates the source channel and retain the rationale with the request. That explanation helps the next shift understand why the quantity was authorized.

How do we agree the safety-stock quantity?

Agree the buffer in the item’s base unit and review it alongside existing Held quantities. Inventory Supervisor settles the amount the request may use and records the reason. The reservation action then checks its claim against the eligible lot quantity still free after active holds.

Can a reservation exceed the stock still free?

The reservation workflow refuses that claim and writes a Failed operation receipt with the shortfall. Approval of demand does not increase supply. Inspect the lot, existing Held quantities and the operation result before correcting scope or waiting for separately evidenced stock.

What happens when an operation is repeated?

Stock execution uses a stable source effect key derived from the request. Reservation uses a stable request-and-lot operation key, and review and reconciliation have their own stable keys. Repeat the same intended operation with its original identity and inspect the earlier result instead of generating an unexplained new action.

Can the supervisor decide an older request revision?

The review workflow refuses stale revisions and already Executed or Cancelled requests. Inventory Supervisor should reload the current scope before recording the decision. Each review decision retains the outcome and rationale against its source record.

How are cancellation and reversal different?

Authorized correction or cancellation releases held reservations and restores free stock. A posted movement uses the reversal workflow, which posts a compensation and retains the original unchanged. Request cancellation alone is not evidence that the physical stock effect was reversed.

What should we check when a load departs?

Record the actual load state and retain the handling-unit evidence, then inspect the stock request’s movement and operation receipt. Completion verification compares posted movement quantity with authorized demand. If they disagree, Inventory Supervisor resolves the case through supported correction or reversal work.

What does Operations Overview help us decide?

Operations Overview brings stock on hand and available quantity together with pending review decisions and failed operation receipts. Inventory Supervisor can choose the allocation needing attention, inspect its request and lot evidence, then decide the next permitted action.

How do we estimate machine-work costs?

Use the platform rates in pricing with the expected imports, agent actions and connected operations. Ordinary manual work and machine work follow the published platform policy; implementation is estimated separately for the agreed operating scope.

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