Available stock
In Arabic المخزون المتاح للبيع
Available stock is the quantity of an item that can still be promised to a new order: stock on hand less what is already reserved for other orders.
In plain words
When a customer asks whether you can deliver 50 cartons, stock on hand is the wrong answer if 40 of them are already promised. Available stock answers the real question, so sales stop taking orders the warehouse cannot fill, and the first customer is not let down for the second.
The simple form is on hand minus reserved. Some businesses also subtract stock in quarantine or damaged bins, and some add goods due in soon, which is then called available to promise. Whatever the formula, it is worked out per item and per warehouse.
The common mistake is reserving stock only when the order is picked. Between the order and the pick, the same cartons look free to everyone else, and two orders are promised one shelf. Reserve when the order is confirmed.
- On hand
- 120 cartons
- Held for the order of 2026-03-28
- 50 cartons
- Held for the order of 2026-03-30
- 35 cartons
- Available
- 35 cartons
In Axon Suite
How Axon Suite handles it
In Axon Suite saving a sales order holds stock for each line in its warehouse, in full, when there is enough available stock for it. A line the warehouse cannot cover holds nothing and waits as a backorder.
Feature
Stock holds and backorders
Saving an order holds stock for each line in its warehouse. A line the warehouse cannot cover waits as a backorder, and when stock comes in it goes to the oldest waiting order first, not to whoever asks loudest.
Open: Stock holds and backorders