The Hub organization specifies the rule to determine how inventory items are identified
and consolidated. The Hub can choose to consolidate at either the Hub level or the Enterprise level.
When inventory is consolidated at
the Hub level, the item ID and unit of measure is assumed to be unique across all organizations and
there is no inventory segmentation. Choosing Enterprise level consolidation implies inventory is
segregated by each enterprise.
When deciding what level to consolidate inventory
at, you must take into consideration the following system functions
and how they are affected:
- Drop shipping - You must consider which organizations
can be used for drop shipping the sales orders of an organization.
Any organization can drop ship their sales orders from any other organization
that is part of the same inventory consolidation.
Note: You
can drop ship orders to a ship node whose owner belongs to a different
inventory consolidator if you first ensure all inventory adjustments
for this ship node are created passing the correct organization code
to the adjustInventory API.
Note: For example,
if ShipNode1 is owned by organization code DEFAULT (Inventory Consolidator
= DEFAULT), by default if you call adjust Inventory for this ship
node (without passing the organization code), the adjustment is made
for the inventory consolidator of the ship node owner, in this case
DEFAULT.
Note: If Enterprise1 (Inventory Consolidator
= Enterprise1) wishes to source inventory from ShipNode1, all inventory
adjustments at ShipNode1 for Enterprise1 must be made by passing OrganizationCode=Enterprise1
when calling the adjustInventory API.
- Inventory visibility - All organizations that are
part of the same inventory consolidation have access to inventory
of all other organizations with the only limitation being their own
distribution setup.
- Inventory monitoring - Inventory and availability
monitoring can only be run for the inventory consolidator.