Many many thanks Ingo, you’re always a great help. One more thing, please. 
Apart from Ofbiz implementation, why we don’t also reserve inventory when 
creating a request, why wait till creating the order?

Best regards,
Emad

> On 26 Apr 2022, at 8:38 AM, Ingo Wolfmayr <ingo.wolfm...@wolfix.at> wrote:
> 
> Hi Emad,
> 
> in default inventory is reserved when
>       - an order is created or
>       - an order is picked.
> This depends on your store settings.
> 
> Settings: Catalog --> Stores --> Store --> Inventory:
> "Reserve Inventory" to enable it
> "Reserve Order Enum Id" for the reserve logic (FIFO ...)
> 
> Additionally to that you have the possibility to create backorders (reserve 
> inventory for products that are not on stock).
> 
> Reservations are stored in "OrderItemShipGrpInvRes" and will be removed when 
> fullfilled.
> 
> There are lots of other configurations posibilities to tweak your process 
> like 
>       - order reservation priority  (defined when creating the order)
>       - reserve from specific facility (defined when creating the order)
>       - temporary reservations (reserve inventory before order is created) - 
> this needs some programming to activate it for your needs.
>       - ...
> 
> If reservations are still not working:
> 1.) Check your product store settings
> 2.) Check your product settings (with demo data GZ-1000 is a good canditate 
> for testing inventory reservations)
> 
> As far as I know there is no inventory reserve logic for quotes but you can 
> easily create an order from quotes or use temporary reservations.
> 
> Best regards,
> Ingo
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Emad Radwan <eradwan1...@gmail.com> 
> Gesendet: Samstag, 23. April 2022 02:29
> An: user@ofbiz.apache.org
> Betreff: Best Practices for reserving inventory
> 
> Hello Community,
> 
> I see that this step is not happening when creating a sales request. What is 
> the best practice for this and how it’s currently handled in Ofbiz; when 
> creating a quotation or order?
> 
> Regards,
> Emad

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