Replenishment (SAP Library

Replenishment

Use

Replenishment is a method of supplying recipients (sites or external customers) with merchandise in line with the demand for the merchandise concerned. In replenishment planning, stocks are calculated using the stock situation (for example, purchase orders or sales orders) and follow-on documents are generated for supplying merchandise.

Replenishing sites

You can run replenishment planning for an internal customer (for example, a particular store) that has a site and customer master record in your system. Replenishment calculates requirements using previous transactions and goods movements, in particular POS sales in stores, that are posted as goods issues at POS inbound processing.

Replenishment for external customers

Replenishment is used for external customers in Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI) so that requirements planning can be offered to customers as a service. To do this, you must have access to customer sales and stock data. For further information, see Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI).

A customer master record exists in your system for the customer in question. However, no site master record exists. You can use replenishment planning for external customers in an SAP Retail system and in an SAP manufacturing system.

Integration

Article (or material)

Article-based replenishment data can be processed using article maintenance (in an SAP retailing system) or using material maintenance (SAP manufacturing system).

Site

In the site master you maintain the different sets of data for controlling replenishment. You can, for example, determine the type of follow-on documents that are created.

Inventory Management

You can use Inventory Management in Materials Management as the basis for Replenishment.

POS Interface - Inbound

During POS inbound processing, the system analyzes sales data and updates the data as goods issues in Inventory Management.

Store orders

The system uses store order functions to generate follow-on documents after the replenishment requirements have been determined.

Features

Replenishing sites

Determination of replenishment requirements based on stock data.

Simplified Replenishment-based Inventory Management enables you to also use Replenishment for Inventory Management on a value-only basis.

Simplifying master data maintenance by grouping sites with similar requirements together in requirement groups.

Planned issues and receipts can be taken into consideration based on ATP (available-to-promise).

Sales orders, purchase requisitions, purchase orders or deliveries can be generated as follow -on documents for Replenishment planning.

Analyzing results from Replenishment runs in the Replenishment Monitor.

Replenishment for external customers

Determination of Replenishment requirements based on stock data. To do this, you must have access to customer sales and stock data. Customers can transfer this data to you by EDI in, for example, VMI (see VMI: Receiving Sales and Stock Data).

Only Replenishment-based Inventory Management can be used. You cannot use MM-based Inventory Management.

Planned issues and receipts cannot be taken into consideration.

Only sales orders are generated as documents following on from replenishment planning.

Goods receipts are not confirmed.

Analyzing results from replenishment runs in the Replenishment Monitor.

See also:

Background Processing: Replenishment