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. In replenishment planning, requirements are calculated using the current stock situation. When this has been done, follow-on documents (for example, purchase orders or sales orders) are generated for supplying merchandise.

Replenishment for sites

Here you are running replenishment planning for an internal customer (for example, for a store) that has a site and customer master record in their system. Replenishment calculates required quantities using previous goods movements and paying particular attention to sales entered at point of sales (POS) in store and POS inbound processing that have been posted as goods issues.

Replenishment for external customers

Replenishment for external customers is used in Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI) to run requirements planning as a service to customers. To run replenishment for external customers, you must have access to customer sales and stock data. Fore more information, see Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI).

A customer master record for your customer exists in your system. No site master record is available, however. You can use replenishment planning for external customers both in an SAP Retail system and a manufacturing system.

Integration

Article (or material)

You can process article-related replenishment data using article maintenance (in an SAP Retail system) or using material maintenance (in a 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 Order

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

Features

Replenishment for sites

Determination of replenishment requirements based on stock data.

Simplified replenishment-based Inventory Management enables you to 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. 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

Multi-Step Replenishment