Planning Replenishments (SAP Library

Planning Replenishments

Use

You can plan replenishments:

manually
in the background

You can plan replenishments for sites or customers. If the recipient is a customer, the following constraints apply:

You can only use Replenishment-based Inventory Management. This means planned receipts and issues cannot be taken into account.
Only sales orders are generated as documents following on from replenishment planning.

The following describes how to plan replenishments for sites. Replenishments are planned for customers in the same way, with the above-mentioned constraints.

Procedure

To plan replenishments for sites manually, proceed as follows:

Enter either sites or site groups on the Replenishment: Planning Screen. Limit your selection further by article and merchandise category.

If you want to determine expected receipts at the time of goods receipt, set the indicator for determining Receipts/issues via ATP. Enter a planning date and a period at which, when elapsed, the goods receipt will be entered. Planned receipts and issues in the site will then be included for this period. If a forecast was made beforehand for sales, these values are taken into consideration too.

Choose Program ® Execute to obtain a list of replenishment requirements for the selected sites.

If you wish to change the quantities, proceed as follows:

Double-click on the quantity. A window appears detailing the stock levels, expected receipts and issues and the resulting replenishment requirements. Change the replenishment requirements as required.

Choose Replenishment requirements ® Generate follow-on document. The system saves the quantities and generates follow-on documents (purchase requisitions, purchase orders, deliveries or sales orders).

You can then branch to the Replenishment monitor screen or the parameter overview screen. Here you view the errors, the workitems created and the generated documents.

Notes and Remarks

If you run the program in the background, this must be scheduled as a job in the system. If the system runs inbound processing of POS data or of recipient stock and sales data, this must be complete before replenishments can be planned.

With background processing, you can set up technical parameters that divide up the items to be processed in smaller logical units.