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Reserve License Plates on Sales Order Release - Order-Committed Reservation Efficiency

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D365 Community,

I am a bit baffled at the fact that there seems to be no realistic/functional process for reserving assembled to order license plates during Sales Order load release.

My company assembles highly configurable product that is assembled to order and skidded by order at the end of the assembly process using license plates.

Once skidding is completed, the license plates will contain anywhere from 5-50 finished goods that are called for by the sales order (item requirement).

These skids are considerably large in size and typically ship out within a number of days after assembly completion so there is no sense in placing them back into bulk inventory after completion.

What I would like to do is have the license plates automatically reserved when released to warehouse. I have successfully used the Order-Committed Reservation ODATA tool to place these reservations, but this would require a production controller or shipping coordinator to know exactly which items were available and which license plate they are on. The ODATA interface is clunky and slow so I am afraid this will hinder our process.

All items that are assembled to order are marked (single level standard) to the demand order so all materials on the license plate are already reserved to the order.

My questions are:

Has anyone built a process that consistently and effectively utilizes the Order-Committed Reservation process to reserve license plates quickly and accurately?
Is there any way to (at least partially) automate the reservation process so that we don't have someone constantly working to place reservations manually?
Before license plates can be reserved with the ODATA tool, the existing reservations to the demand order must be removed. Is there a way to get around this considered the reservation is to the correct demand order (this is automatic because of marking)?

This really seems like it should be basic system functionality as I would imagine many organizations assemble material by order and need to efficiently move those materials to the shipping dock (using license plates) after production is complete.

My other thought here was to utilize the Production Cross Docking feature to create cross dock work "at supply receipt" but this function is currently only supported for Transfer Orders. Is there any anticipated release for support of "Sales Orders" as a supply source?

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Laurens vd Tang 4,018 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Good day,

I have a question in return. How do you create the production order? Does the production order have a marking to the sales order line?

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Laurens van der Tang

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BS_BS_PC 48 on at

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Hey Laurens,

We utilize planning optimization to generate planned production orders with a requirement-based coverage type to ensure planned orders for ATO products are always 1:1 with a supply order.

We then use single level standard marking to mark the production order to the sales order during firming.

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Laurens vd Tang 4,018 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Good day,

Would it be an option to use cross-docking with the supply source 'Production order'?

Best regards,

Laurens van der Tang

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Sagar Suman 6,550 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi,

As you shared the skids once they are completed require some days before they are actually shipped. In that case where they are temporarily stored?

Ideally skids should be moved to the picking zone and later sales order will automatically perform reservations on the FG stock in picking locations (zones)

Slotting could also automate the movement of the pallets by creating replenishment works based on the sales order reservations to the picking zones.

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BS_BS_PC 48 on at

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Laurens,

I will have to attempt using the "before supply receipt" as you suggest below. I was trying to stay away from relying on the planned cross docking as I hadn't seen much success with it when trying to cross dock POs to a project and wasn't sure I could use that function for production. My understanding was that the "At Supply Receipt" policy was designed for production cross docking. I will give this a shot and see what comes of it.

Thanks for the recommendation here! I will follow up with what comes of the testing.

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BS_BS_PC 48 on at

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Sagar,

What you describe is directly in line with our physical process and what we want to achieve.

We currently have the license plates containing finished goods flow into Outbound Staging location which are contained to a staging zone.

However, when releasing the load to the warehouse, a pick and put action must be taken for every item and quantity in those staging locations (instead of a single pick and put for the License Plate).

Do you know of a clean way to ensure all movements between the picking location and dock are done via license plate scan?

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