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Transfer obligations

A transfer obligation is not stock replenishment but a promise made to an order: one building has done its part and another still owes goods.

Stockly → Warehouses → Transfers → Transfer obligations.

  • Packing station — packing revealed that part of an order has to come from another building.
  • Stock sync — goods are earmarked where the order cannot be served; the reconcile records that they must travel.

Recorded, Order, Product, Quantity, From → to, Status, Recorded by, Transfer.

Statuses: Open (waiting), On a ride (travelling on a transfer), Delivered, Cancelled.

The Expedited marker means the ride skipped the batching window, because the goods were needed at once and did not wait for a full van.

An obligation is never removed without a reason; the reason is visible in its details:

  • A customer is waiting, Operationally urgent — the reasons it was raised with priority,
  • The order line was cancelled, The demand disappeared, Fulfilled another way — the demand ceased to exist,
  • Goods damaged at the source, The source cannot supply, Stocktake in progress at the source — the source cannot send,
  • The source keeps these units on its shelf (floor) — the units are protected by the source building’s shelf floor,
  • The immediate ride was refused, The quick ride stopped part-way — an immediate ride did not happen,
  • The transfer was cancelled, The transfer no longer exists — the transfer ceased to exist,
  • Re-pointing refused: the order is pinned elsewhere — a rule pins the order to a specific building and it cannot be redirected.

That list of reasons is the place to check when goods that were expected did not arrive.

An empty list is the normal state of a shop where every order is served from one building.

  • An obligation turns into a transfer, and the Transfer column leads straight to it.
  • The shelf floor blocking a departure is a source-building setting. → Warehouse settings
  • Pinning an order to a building is described by the sourcing rules. → Sourcing rules
  • Obligations that stopped agreeing with what is on the shelf have a list of their own. → Supply exceptions