Difference between Reservation and Marking?

skrzypcg

Hello,

can someone please tell me what the fundemental difference between Reservation and Marking in Axapta is?

What is the difference between marking items and reserving against the lotid or serial number dimension?

Thanks for help.

Brazzer

Hi skrzypcg

Basically the feature when doing the reservation/marking is the same. However, the way that the transactions are treated afterwards are different.

Ex: if your cost model is FIFO

Reservation

01/06/06 PO1 1 pcs 100$
10/06/06 PO2 1 pcs 200$
21/06/06 SO1 -1 pcs ?

If you have reserved the salesorder against PO2 then the FIFO is calculated as normal, and the costprice going out of the inventory is 100.

Month end inventory value = 200

Marking

01/06/06 PO1 1 pcs 100$
10/06/06 PO2 1 pcs 200$
21/06/06 SO1 -1 pcs ?

If you have marked against PO 2, then the FIFO calculation will treat markings as a 1-1 setting. This means that when closing the inventory the FIFO calculation will not look at the salesorder and PO2, because these have allready been settled. and the cost of the salesorder is 200.

Month end inventory value = 100

This is one of the major differences between marking and reservation.
Also depending on the inventory dimension group, then the system can re-reserve against another lot of the same item, but the system cannot mark against other items automatically.

Hope that this helped you with your question.

szleem

Month end:
Reservation's cost according to against PO.
Marking's cost according to cost model.

szleem

I think that your inventory dimension group has been set Batch number or Serial number on,then you can 'reserved the salesorder against PO2'