Use
You can use this process to plan replenishments for customers using vendor-managed inventory (VMI).
Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) is one of the strategies aimed at enhancing the efficiency of the supply chain under the umbrella of Efficient Consumer Response (ECR). VMI is a service that manufacturers offer retailers, whereby manufacturers take over the task of replenishing their products at retail outlets.
Prerequisites
The process is based on customer stock and sales data. The customer must have sent you this data beforehand, and it must be available in your system. Data can be transferred to your SAP system using the EDI messages PROACT, WPUBON (from POS systems) and WPUUMS (from POS systems). You can also maintain customer stock and sales figures manually in the system.
If the target stock is to be based on future sales (dynamic target stock), you first have to forecast the sales data.
Process Flow
Results
The replenishment planning run results in sales orders that you transfer to the customer by EDI in the form of an order acknowledgment.