Sage 100

This can be done without modification, using lot/serial valuation.

But that then changes inventory valuation method which has costing affects and extra data entry on the receipt of goods side.  Maybe I'm just not thinking it thru, it's 5pm on a Friday and it's been a long week.....

This can be done without modification, using lot/serial valuation.

This can be done without modification, using lot/serial valuation.

You might look at multi-bin. There you can create a customer specific bin and allocate inventory to it. It will then reserve the inventory for that customer. Not sure of the free version has this function.

This can be done without modification, using lot/serial valuation.

Adding Multi-Bin Basic would accomplish this for them.  The "allocation" would be in the newly added MB Tab, not on the main or Qty Tab.  

What is the problem are they looking to solve? 

Wouldn't Quantity Allocated be almost the same as Quantity in Shipping?  ( I understand that this requires an extra step. I've also worked with enough clients in my career to know that the ones who say "we always do it this way and never have any exception to the way we order" ..... will have exceptions )

I had a client who made metal screws. They had huge orders that took a few days to pick. They staged these orders in a corner of their warehouse in what were shopping carts that some employees must have borrowed from the store next door. The problem was that these staged orders never showed up on inventory as in shipping because they waited to record them until the entire order was ready. ScanForce has enhancements including a pick to pallet that might help in this type of situation ( https://scanforce.com/sage-100/pick-to-pallet ).

Wayne, much to your point, they are "allocating" the stock days before they go thru the picking motion on the orders they want to pick.  It is sort of a they have always done it this way, but also I get why they would want to see their more immediate stock needs vs all sales orders that are in their system as they do have people place orders months in advanced.  I talked going down the scanning/multibin way but that, at this moment, is a lot more money than they want to spend unfortunately.  They need more pain :)

What is the problem are they looking to solve? 

Wouldn't Quantity Allocated be almost the same as Quantity in Shipping?  ( I understand that this requires an extra step. I've also worked with enough clients in my career to know that the ones who say "we always do it this way and never have any exception to the way we order" ..... will have exceptions )

I had a client who made metal screws. They had huge orders that took a few days to pick. They staged these orders in a corner of their warehouse in what were shopping carts that some employees must have borrowed from the store next door. The problem was that these staged orders never showed up on inventory as in shipping because they waited to record them until the entire order was ready. ScanForce has enhancements including a pick to pallet that might help in this type of situation ( https://scanforce.com/sage-100/pick-to-pallet ).

Wow.  Custom programming is the "low cost" option?!? 

Isn't multi-bin basic free (...subscription...)?

Wayne, much to your point, they are "allocating" the stock days before they go thru the picking motion on the orders they want to pick.  It is sort of a they have always done it this way, but also I get why they would want to see their more immediate stock needs vs all sales orders that are in their system as they do have people place orders months in advanced.  I talked going down the scanning/multibin way but that, at this moment, is a lot more money than they want to spend unfortunately.  They need more pain :)

What is the problem are they looking to solve? 

Wouldn't Quantity Allocated be almost the same as Quantity in Shipping?  ( I understand that this requires an extra step. I've also worked with enough clients in my career to know that the ones who say "we always do it this way and never have any exception to the way we order" ..... will have exceptions )

I had a client who made metal screws. They had huge orders that took a few days to pick. They staged these orders in a corner of their warehouse in what were shopping carts that some employees must have borrowed from the store next door. The problem was that these staged orders never showed up on inventory as in shipping because they waited to record them until the entire order was ready. ScanForce has enhancements including a pick to pallet that might help in this type of situation ( https://scanforce.com/sage-100/pick-to-pallet ).