Enhanced Availability (Placeholder Allocations)
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Modified on: Wed, 8 Oct, 2025 at 10:20 AM
- Allows users in blocking catalogs to enter quantities based on future availability and choose whether shipments should ship together or separate
- Elastic treats the catalog as a backorder catalog during quantity entry but as a blocking one in the cart and at the checkout
- Users can reconcile any blocked placeholder allocations automatically with split shipments or shipping everything together
- Contact your Account Manager to update your setting
- Products with future Inventory quantities available
- User enters total desired quantity
- Opportunity to enter more units than currently showing available at requested ship date
- Warning label to inform user that there are more units on the order than available at ship-date in Cart Screen
- User can resolve to determine how to send shipment
- Summary of Total Order Qty and Unavailable Qty.
- User chooses to ship units separately when available.
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