Storage Management Reservations

Hopstack provides the enhanced ability to reserve specific warehouse locations for designated clients and products. This feature ensures that your warehouse operations remain efficient, with dedicated spaces for high-priority items and customers. By reserving storage locations, you can improve order fulfillment speed, optimize space usage, and minimize stock mismanagement.

This feature enables greater flexibility and control over your storage environment, helping you scale effortlessly while maintaining precision.

Reserving Storage Locations:

On going to the Storage Management under Set-up, you will be able to view the storage sections and locations that you have created within a warehouse
For the storage section, where you would like to add reservations for locations, under Actions, click “Edit Storage Section”
On clicking the option, you will be navigated to the entire Storage Hierarchy and all the locations that have been created under this section
Hopstack allows you to reserve at the parent level and also set individual reservations for each child location, ensuring both flexibility and control.
Manage Reservations at Parent Level:
1. If you’ve created a hierarchy like Pallet > BIN, where a pallet has 10 bins, you can easily reserve them all for specific clients or products.
2. Under the Actions at the Parent Level, click “Manage Reservations”
3. You will be able to select whether you would like to reserve the entire hierarchy for Clients or for specific Products
4. On selecting “Add Client” or “Add Products”, you will be able to view the complete list of Clients that have access to this Warehouse.
5. Hopstack provides the ability to have a multi-select options, and hence you will be to reserve the locations for multiple Clients or Products
6. Once the selections confirmed, you will be able to view them, and on click “Proceed”, the locations will be reserved.
7. Note:
  - When a client is reserved, all associated products under that client will be automatically reserved as well.
  - If the parent location is updated with a reservation, all child locations will be updated accordingly, regardless of whether the child locations already have reservations.
Manage Reservations at Individual Child Locations:
1. Hopstack provides enhanced flexibility that within a hierarchy, each child location can have different reservations. If the hierarchy is PALLET>BIN, and a Pallet has 10 Bins, where each Bin is reserved for different Client or Products
2. Under the actions on a Child location, click “ Manage Reservations”
3. On selecting “Add Client” or “Add Products”, you will be able to view the complete list of Clients that have access to this Warehouse
4. Hopstack provides the ability to have a multi-select options, and hence you will be to reserve the locations for multiple Clients or Products
5. Once the selections confirmed, you will be able to view them, and on click “Proceed”, the locations will be reserved.
6. You will be able to go to the Homepage of the Storage Section, and will be able to view that different child locations have different reservations.
Reservations and its Impact on Workflows:
1. When a reservation is made for a specific location (e.g., Loc ABC) for a particular item (e.g., SKU X), that location will only be able to store SKU X. However, this doesn't restrict SKU X from being placed in any other available and usable locations. For example, if Loc ABC is reserved for SKU X, you can still store SKU X in other open locations as needed.
2. Receiving :
  1. Associate combining Receiving and Putaway in a single workflow:
    1. Unavailable Location:
      When a location is marked as unavailable, it cannot be used, regardless of any reservations.
    2. Reserved Location is Available for Reserved Item:
      If the reserved item is being received and put away, the reserved location can be used as long as there is sufficient capacity.
    3. Reserved Location is Available, but Unreserved Locations are Free:
      If the reserved item is being received and put away, other unreserved locations with available capacity can also be used.
    4. Reserved Location is Available, but a Different Item is Being Received:
      The reserved location cannot be used for items other than the reserved one, even if the location has available capacity.
  2. Associate doing Suggested Putaway with Receiving Workflow:
    1. Note: To enable this Workflow, please contact your implementation manageer for more details.
    2. Unavailable Location:
      When a location is marked as unavailable, it cannot be used, regardless of any reservations.
    3. Reserved Location Available for Reserved Item during Suggested Putaway:
      If the reserved item is being received and suggested for putaway, the reserved location can be selected for putaway as long as it has available capacity.
    4. Reserved Location Available, but Another Unreserved Location Can Be Used:
      If the reserved item is being received and suggested for putaway, another unreserved location can also be selected for suggested putaway if it has sufficient capacity and the SKU-BIN exists.
    5. Reserved Location Available, but Different Item for Suggested Putaway:
      The reserved location cannot be selected for putaway of a different item, even if it has capacity, because it is reserved for another specific item.
3. Putaway:
  1. Unavailable Location:
    If a location is marked as unavailable, it cannot be used, regardless of existing reservations.
  2. Reserved Location Available for Reserved Item during Putaway:
    If the reserved item is being put away, the reserved location can be used as long as there is sufficient capacity.
  3. Reserved Location Available, but Another Unreserved Location Can Be Used:
    If the reserved item is being put away, another unreserved location can also be utilized for putaway, provided it has capacity.
  4. Reserved Location Available, but Different Item for Putaway:
    The reserved location cannot be used for putaway of a different item, even if there is available capacity, as it is specifically reserved for another item.
4. SKU-BIN Management:
  1. In SKU-BIN management, if a location is reserved for a specific entity, manual creation of that location for any other entity is prohibited.
5. Bin-Bin Transfer
  1. The Bin-Bin transfer process must adhere to location reservations. If a specific SKU is reserved for clients (which implicitly reserves the associated locations), any Bin-Bin transfer initiated must follow these reservation rules. Additionally, if the locations involved in the transfer are marked as unavailable, the Bin-Bin transfer should not be permitted for those locations.