The following example illustrates how the use of requirement groups affects Multi-Step Replenishment.

Note that you can only use multi-step replenishment for stores.

The following table illustrates several site master records. A requirement group has been assigned to the confectionery merchandise category.

Replenishment data has been defined at requirement group level for article R100002 (chocolate) in merchandise category R1115 (confectionery):

The system copies the replenishment article data from requirement group level to site level. It does so based on the site group assignments made in the site master.

Every change made to the replenishment data at requirement group level is automatically copied to the sites. This makes it more convenient to maintain data when a requirement group contains a very large number of sites.

Even though site R152 is assigned to a requirement group, you change its reorder point to 80.

You then change the reorder point for requirement group 01 to 100.

This change is then made for all the sites assigned to the requirement group. The reorder point for site R152 differs from that of the requirement group. It is therefore treated as an exception and not changed.