Host replacement for inventory product allocations

Major customers are often supplied with goods through replenishment storage locations. These order larger quantities to supply their own end customers. To do this, the group reserves corresponding stock quantities of the goods. At regular intervals, the purchasing department reports these stock quantities for reservation to inventory management in the form of what are known as contingent specifications. Inventory management takes the reserved quantities into account when allocating stocks. End customers have no access to the reserved quantities. Major customers are supplied with goods from the contingents according to specified priorities. Each inventory alteration and contingent change by the purchasing department results in a redistribution of the stocks and commitments to contingents, which inventory management calculates using complex business rules. The resulting stock situation, consisting of the available stock and the utilized quantity of the contingent, is regularly reported to the purchasing dept.