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Replenishment planning with multi-step replenishment calculates replenishment requirements and then produces follow-on documents for procurement and delivery during follow-on document generation. Planning results can be displayed in the replenishment monitor. Using the replenishment monitor, you can see which follow-on documents have been created and which errors have occurred. You can schedule replenishment planning either online or as a job in the system. SAP recommends you carry it out as a job in the system.

You can only perform replenishment planning with multi-step replenishment for stores.

Multi-step replenishment can be carried out using two different procedures.

Within multi-step replenishment, the two-step procedure only uses the programs for calculating requirements and generating follow-on documents. The program for determining requirements calculation data is not used in the two-step procedure.

Within multi-step replenishment, the three-step procedure uses all three programs.

Prerequisites

If you update stock information for multi-step replenishment using POS inbound processing, the processing must have come to an end before you start replenishment planning.

For more information, see Structure linkPOS Inbound Processing Procedure.

Procedure

Determining Requirements Calculation Data

When determining requirements calculation data within the three-step procedure, you can determine the following data beforehand and prepare the requirements calculation and follow-on documents generation steps.

Requirements Calculation

  1. You can start requirements calculation manually (online) or automatically by scheduling it as a gob (in batch) for selected stores and articles.
  2. If a reorder point is maintained, a replenishment requirement will only be determined if the current stock is equal to or falls below the reorder point (see also Using a Reorder Point).
  3. If Inventory Management for Materials Management is active, planned issues and receipts in the store can be taken into consideration until the end of the replenishment lead time using ATP (see also Including Expected Issues and Receipts).
  4. The system calculates target stock.

    5. Target stock can be calculated using replenishment article data (static target stock) or dynamically when replenishment planning is carried out (dynamic target stock). You can only work with dynamic target stock if forecast sales data exists (see also Planning Using Dynamic Target Stock).

  5. If forecast data exists in the system, you can take the forecasted sales until the end of the replenishment lead time into consideration (see also: Multi-Step Replenishment: Sales Forecast).
  6. The system calculates your required replenishment quantity.

    7. The required replenishment quantity is the difference between the target stock and the standard stock.

    If, in replenishment planning, requirements are determined for components of structured articles, the system converts the requirement to that of the header article. The header article is then entered in the follow-on documents.

  7. Quantity optimizing can be performed.

The replenishment quantity is the requirement quantity after it has been rounded.
  1. Result

If no errors occur, requirements are created for replenishment. If any errors do occur, you can check them in the replenishment monitor. Each time you execute the program for planning replenishments, the system stores the replenishment run under an internal number. This number is used to identify a transaction when you subsequently analyze the run in the replenishment monitor. For more information, see Using the Replenishment Monitor in Multi-Step Replenishment.

Generation of Follow-On Documents

  1. You can start the generation of follow-on documents manually (online) or automatically by scheduling it as a job (in batch) for selected stores and articles.
  2. Follow-on documents are generated.

The system uses functions for store order processing to generate follow-on documents (see also Structure linkStore Orders). You can generate the following documents:

If no site master data exists for a store, a sales order is normally generated (order type TAV). Quantity optimization can be carried out during the generation of follow-on documents. The replenishment quantity is the requirement quantity after it has been rounded (see also Structure link Quantity Optimizing).

If you already rounded the requirements at the requirements calculation stage, you should not carry out another quantity rounding when generating follow-on documents.

  1. Result

If no errors occur, follow-on documents are created for replenishment. Each time you execute the program for planning replenishments, the system stores the replenishment run under an internal number. This number is used to identify a transaction when you subsequently analyze the run in the replenishment monitor. For more information, see Using the Replenishment Monitor in Multi-Step Replenishment.

 

 

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