Forecasting & Replenishment 

Purpose

You can use this business scenario to plan, create and manage your supply network for your own points-of-sales and for your partners. The solution covers planning of both the supply and the network. You can reduce excess stock and stock gaps at points-of-sales and stores.

Using highly automated replenishment planning for stores and points-of-sales allows you to minimize the amount of manual processing required. You can precisely forecast future requirements by determining your exact requirements and optimize the purchase order quantities required. You can use forecast algorithms that calculate the anticipated requirement on the basis of historical data.

The system uses requirement quantity optimization to optimize net requirements so that logistical purchase order units can be achieved or the total costs can be reduced.

The large number of analysis options available to you increases the transparency of the logistics chain.

Prerequisites

You can implement this business scenario with various releases of the respective application component. However, not every combination is possible. For more information, see the following:

●      SAP for Telecommunications Master Guide in SAP Service Marketplace at service.sap.com/instguides

●       Scenario & Process Component List in the SAP Service Marketplace at service.sap.com/scl

Process Flow

The business processes run as follows:

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       1.      Demand Planning and Forecasting

       2.      Supply Network Planning Heuristic

       3.      Supply Network Optimization

       4.      Safety Stock Planning

       5.      Distribution Planning

       6.      Transportation Planning

       7.      Transportation Execution

       8.      Warehousing & Storage