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Enhanced Availability (Placeholder Allocations)

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Enhanced Availability (Placeholder Allocations)

  • Allows users in blocking catalogs to enter quantities based on future availability and choose whether shipments should ship together or separate
  • Elastic treats the catalog as a backorder catalog during quantity entry but as a blocking one in the cart and at the checkout
  • Users can reconcile any blocked placeholder allocations automatically with split shipments or shipping everything together
  • Contact your Account Manager to update your setting




  • Products with future Inventory quantities available
  • User enters total desired quantity
  • Opportunity to enter more units than currently showing available at requested ship date




  • Warning label to inform user that there are more units on the order than available at ship-date in Cart Screen
  • User can resolve to determine how to send shipment



  • Summary of Total Order Qty and Unavailable Qty.
  • User chooses to ship units separately when available.