US 11,908,000 B2Granted

Allocation mechanism in consignment processing

AssigneeSap SE

InventorsV Krishna Anaparthi, Iris Zimmermann, Uday Kamte, Suanka Srivastava

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Abstract

In an example embodiment, when a user creates a consignment issue item for a given product in a sales order, the system will reserve/temporarily allocate the available quantity in consignment stock. A synchronous call to lock the inventor makes a tentative update to the inventory stock on the quantity required for the request product on the created issue item. This update is tentative because the locked quantity should be released if the user decides not to save the document, but it also should be locked so that it is not available to another user who is also trying to create an issue item in a different sales order document for the same product in a parallel session. The allocation may also change several times before saving the document by additional synchronous calls that again update the tentative allocations. When the user finally decides the final state of the issue item, it asynchronously sends either a confirmation or compensate message based on whether the document was saved or not saved.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

at least one hardware processor;
and
a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one hardware processor, cause the at least one hardware processor to perform operations comprising:
requesting stock be sent by sending a consignment fill-up document to a stock provider, the stock becoming consignment stock when sent from the stock provider to a stock receiver;
creating a first software object;
receiving, from a graphical user interface, a request to add a first allocation request to the first software object, the allocation request requesting allocation of a first quantity of a first product from consignment stock;
modifying the first software object to reflect the first allocation request, in response to detection of the request from the graphical user interface;
prior to saving the modified first software object, sending a synchronous request message to an inventory processing component requesting the first quantity of the first product be reserved and temporarily removed from available stock in the consignment stock;
receiving a synchronous response message indicating the first quantity of the first product has been reserved;
and
in response to either a request being received from the graphical user interface to cancel the allocation request or the modified first software object being closed without having been saved, sending an asynchronous compensate message to the inventory processing component requesting the first quantity of the first product be unreserved and placed back into available stock in the consignment stock.

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A method comprising:

requesting stock be sent by sending a consignment fill-up document to a stock provider, the stock becoming consignment stock when sent from the stock provider to a stock receiver;
creating a first software object;
receiving, from a graphical user interface, a request to add a first allocation request to the first software object, the allocation request requesting allocation of a first quantity of a first product from consignment stock;
modifying the first software object to reflect the first allocation request, in response to detection of the request from the graphical user interface;
prior to saving the modified first software object, sending a synchronous request message to an inventory processing component requesting the first quantity of the first product be reserved and temporarily removed from available stock in the consignment stock;
receiving a synchronous response message indicating the first quantity of the first product has been reserved;
and
in response to either a request being received from the graphical user interface to cancel the allocation request or the modified first software object being closed without having been saved, sending an asynchronous compensate message to the inventory processing component requesting the first quantity of the first product be unreserved and placed back into available stock in the consignment stock.

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A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

requesting stock be sent by sending a consignment fill-up document to a stock provider, the stock becoming consignment stock when sent from the stock provider to a stock receiver;
creating a first software object;
receiving, from a graphical user interface, a request to add a first allocation request to the first software object, the allocation request requesting allocation of a first quantity of a first product from consignment stock;
modifying the first software object to reflect the first allocation request, in response to detection of the request from the graphical user interface;
prior to saving the modified first software object, sending a synchronous request message to an inventory processing component requesting the first quantity of the first product be reserved and temporarily removed from available stock in the consignment stock;
receiving a synchronous response message indicating the first quantity of the first product has been reserved;
and
in response to either a request being received from the graphical user interface to cancel the allocation request or the modified first software object being closed without having been saved, sending an asynchronous compensate message to the inventory processing component requesting the first quantity of the first product be unreserved and placed back into available stock in the consignment stock.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/687,320Filed 4 Mar 2022
Published: US 2023/0281698 A17 Sep 2023
Granted: 20 Feb 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06Q 30/0637
Managing shopping lists, e.g. compiling or processing purchase lists: requiring approval before final submission, e.g. parental approval
G06Q 30/0605
Electronic shopping [e-shopping]: pooling transaction partners, e.g. group buying or group selling
G06Q 30/0611
Electronic shopping [e-shopping]: request for offers or quotes
G06Q 30/0633
Electronic shopping [e-shopping]: managing shopping lists, e.g. compiling or processing purchase lists

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