Try Allocate Order to Current Warehouses

Overview

The Try Allocate Order to Current Warehouses step validates that the currently assigned warehouses can fulfill their respective shipments. If a warehouse has all required items in stock, the shipment is locked to that warehouse. This is useful when orders arrive with pre-assigned warehouses that need validation.

Identifier

Configuration Properties

Behavior

What It Does

1. Iterates through all shipments in the order
2. For each shipment, determines the target warehouse (uses VirtualWarehouseCode if set, otherwise WarehouseCode)
3. Validates that the target warehouse has all required items in stock
4. If successful, marks the shipment as IsReallocated = true
5. Tracks complete success, partial success, or failure across all shipments

Prerequisites

• Order must have shipments with warehouse assignments
• Warehouses must be configured in the system

Side Effects

• Sets IsReallocated = true on successfully validated shipments
• Does not change warehouse assignments (validates current assignment)

Business Cases

When to Use

• Pre-allocated orders: Validate orders that arrive with warehouse assignments from external systems
• Click-and-collect: Confirm the selected store has items in stock
• Marketplace orders: Validate seller-assigned warehouses before processing

Example Scenarios

Scenario 1: Complete Success All 3 shipments validate successfully - each warehouse has the required items. All marked as reallocated.

Scenario 2: Partial Success 2 of 3 shipments validate, 1 warehouse is out of stock. The 2 successful shipments are locked.

Scenario 3: Virtual Warehouse A shipment has VirtualWarehouseCode = "DROPSHIP" set - the validation checks the dropship supplier's inventory.

Error Handling

Related Steps

• Try Reallocate Entire Order - Finds a new warehouse if current one is insufficient
• Try Reallocate to Other Warehouse - Reallocates out-of-stock items