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We use the option to associate an outbound location to a work center. The work center is used for shop orders (both make to order and make to stock). For make to order shop orders it is not possible to receive finished goods from the work center to the outbound location unless the location is a picking warehouse type. It is not possible to receive mto shop order output in a floor stock location. Reason: in floor stock location one must not receive parts which are reserved.
However, we are reluctant to define the outbound location as a picking warehouse type because then the stock on this location could become a target for reservation jobs, manual reservation, or creation of pick list.

Has anyone an idea/solution for how to prevent the stock on an outbound location from reservation/creation of picklist (if the location is picking warehouse type) or alternatively how to enable the floor stock type outbound location to receive make to order parts?

@clbrch Could you provide background for your statement that you cannot receive MTO shop order output into a Floor Stock location because one must not receive parts which are reserved into a Floor stock location. Is this an internal policy?

I suspect @clbrch refers to that if you have a shop order pegged to a top level DOP order where the DOP header is pegged to a customer order line, you cannot receive that top level shop order into a shop floor location since that part should be automatically reserved to the customer order line, and the customer order line does not allow reservation from a shop floor location.

I just want to say that there are a few potential solutions to prevent stock from being reserved or picklists from being created for an outbound location that is designated as a picking warehouse type:

  1. Configure the outbound location as "floor stock" type instead of "picking warehouse" type. This will prevent the system from creating picklists for orders that include items from that location.

  2. Create a custom rule in the system to prevent stock from being reserved for certain items or item groups if they are located at the outbound location in question.

  3. Utilize a "make to order" process, where items are only manufactured or assembled once an order has been placed, rather than keeping a stock of finished goods at the outbound location. 

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