Dear colleagues,
We are going to work mostly with vendor consmt stock, but there will often be cases when we have small quantities of own stock. These are the quantities that we want to be shipped first, before pulling some consmt stock. If there's enough own stock for the delivery, the stock determination works fine and the system picks from the own stock. If there's no own stock at all, the system picks from the consmt stock. No issues.
The problem starts when the qty to be shipped exceeds the available own stock and we would like the system to make a split. Such split is impossible if one uses WM (our case), according to the help text of the field "Qty proposal" in the definition of the stock determination strategy.
In my view, this must be quite common case; once a company works with vendor consignment stock, it tries to pull as little as possible from consmt and prioritizes the own stock during shipping. Running WM is also quite common.
Therefore I assume there are other companies that faced the same issue before. How have you solved it? We have an idea of work-around: create delivery, have a background program move the missing qty to the own stock and then post GI. But we would really like to avoid this solution due to the very high volume of transactions - the probability of material locks will increase for the high-runners.
TIA for any ideas,
Raf