Inventory consolidation

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. Selecting an Enterprise-level consolidation implies inventory is segmented by each enterprise.

When deciding what level to consolidate inventory at, you must consider 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 that 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) wants 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 be run only for the inventory consolidator.