Transfering Allocated Material

​@ealvez Is there a reason to not initiate the Transfer Order using Critical materials form and allocate the item on the Transfer order which is linked to the production order. 
After the Shipment is confirmed and inventory is at the production location, the hard allocate the inventory. 

​@PragatiMalviya64 thank you for your reply!

We did not consider using a transfer order. Before creating a transfer order, would the critical materials be allocated to a Production Order still? For our current process, we allocate to a PR before moving. Would the transfer order allow me to transfer still? From what I understand, it wont allow to move it since qty available would be 0.

​@ealvez It's a bit difficult to understand the scenario. I suggest creating support ticket with the details of the scenario and support should be able to point you in the right direction. 

In the suggestion, i made an assumption that locations are in different warehouses. If the Warehouse is same, then Location which is not available for Production should not have Production allowed selected and transfer must be handled first before the allocation. 

You can also explore the option “Allow Negative Inventory” in the item class. 

The “Allow Negative Inventory” setting only allows for Negative On Hand quantities, and not for negative Available Quantities.

Hence, turning that on does not resolve the issue of being able to “Hard Allocate” stock to an order, of any kind.

Allocating stock to a Transfer Order, if the source is a different Warehouse to the consumption Warehouse, and then completing the Transfer when ready to start Production, and allocating stock to the Production Order immediately after, would resolve the question.

NOTE: I haven’t confirmed whether Transfer Order would allow transfers within a Warehouse. That may be possible.

Thanks for the reply ​@PragatiMalviya64 and ​@RGI 

To be honest, this seems to be gap for sure. I don’t get why you cant move items around locations when it is tied to a PR. I get it from a consumption perspective, should not be allowed to consume if allocated, fair, but for moving locations too? 

In the case that we use allocations to figure out what to pick for production, that has to be unallocated, moved, then allocated again? Very inefficient in my opinion. 

Happy to get your thoughts.