Allocate and reserve WMS items in Inventory Visibility
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
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| Users by admins, makers, or analysts | 
Aug 15, 2022 |
Oct 17, 2022 |
Business value
Businesses using warehouse management processes (WMS) can now use Inventory Visibility to make soft reservations and allocate inventory. Soft reservations let you track omnichannel sales demand in real time, thereby avoiding oversell, while inventory allocation lets you reserve on-hand inventory for your most important channels and corporate customers. This expanded support for WMS items enables businesses that rely on the advanced warehousing capabilities of WMS to benefit from the many business advantages brought by the soft reservation and allocation capabilities of Inventory Visibility.
Feature details
The following features of the Inventory Visibility service are now supported for WMS-enabled items in addition to non-WMS items:
- Soft reservations for WMS-enabled items: Soft reservations make a real-time temporary deduction of inventory based on the quantity and product dimensions specified in a sales order. The reservation occurs before the order is released to the warehouse, which means that businesses using WMS will be able to make soft reservations regardless of whether warehouse hierarchies are specified in the order.
- Inventory allocation for WMS-enabled items: Inventory allocation allows channel sales planners or sales account managers to preallocate on-hand inventory to tailor channel demands or fulfill requests from key corporate customers. Allocation occurs before sales transactions and therefore takes place before any physical warehouse work. As a result, Inventory Visibility will associate each item and quantity being allocated with top warehouse level information, regardless of whether the items are WMS-enabled and at which warehouse hierarchy level they are stored.
Inventory Visibility
Inventory Visibility provides an independent and highly scalable microservice that enables real-time, on-hand inventory change postings and visibility tracking across all your data sources and channels. For more information about Inventory Visibility, see the Inventory Visibility Add-in overview.