Know what can actually leave.
Separate physical inventory from blocked stock and other-order reservations before making a customer promise.
Useful result
Leeds has 1,800 physical units but only 400 eligible for this order.
All use cases
Operations
Make a shipment promise the warehouse can actually keep.
Resolve a shipment exception when physical stock, quality status, reservations, transfer timing, and receiving constraints disagree.
Customer Operations, Warehouse, Quality, and Transport
Dispatch Feasibility WorkbenchFictional data
Leeds eligibility
1,000 held
400 committed
400 eligible
1,800 physical1,200 required
Manchester
800 eligible
Route
30 min slack
Recovery decision
£640 shuttle
400 Leeds + 800 Manchester. Held stock and other reservations remain untouched.
Human review required
The question
“Can all 1,200 units arrive tomorrow without using held stock or moving another customer’s reservation?”
ERP/WMS, quality, and transport systems remain authoritative. No held-stock release, transfer, or booking is implied by this fixture.
Agree a recovery the warehouse can execute.
Join Manchester’s 800 eligible units with route timing, handling, cutoff, and an explicit freight decision.
Useful result
14:00 arrival + 90 minutes handling = 15:30 ready, 30 minutes before cutoff.
Stop making the same false promise.
Warehouse returns the grouping defect and proposes separate changes to application logic and the stock-check procedure.
Useful result
The proposals stay local and await validation; no automatic repair is claimed.
The evidence behind the result.
Numbers stay connected to their definitions, source records, and limits.
Leeds physical
1,800
Not all eligible
Held stock
1,000
QH-119 remains active
Leeds eligible
400
After other reservations
Manchester eligible
800
Transfer required
Inspect the source trail.
This demonstration uses internally consistent fictional fixtures. It is not a customer result or live external execution.
L601: 1,000 physical, BLOCKED, QH-119 open
L602: 800 physical, 400 reserved for other orders
QUOTE-SH-203: £640, projected Leeds arrival 14:00
The work moves. Responsibility stays clear.
Originates
Customer Operations
Contributes
Warehouse Validation
Decides
Transport / Operations
Decision remains with people
Review a £640 shuttle plan covering all 1,200 units with 30 minutes of planned cutoff margin.