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Component documentationReplenishment Workbench

 

Using this component, you can display and process the results of the automatic replenishment process. You can check, control, and adjust the results of the replenishment process for stores and distribution centers. The results include exceptions and order proposals that SAP F&R was not able to release automatically during the automatic replenishment process. This gives you the opportunity to check and correct the results before you transfer order proposals to the purchasing system.

Integration

To process order proposals, the replenishment process must be completed in SAP F&R.

Features

Note that some of the options mentioned in this list are only available with the business function SCM-FRE, Replenishment and Optimization in F&R (SCM_FRE_OPTIM).

  • Worklist

    To check the order proposals, you need various information in the worklist, such as header data, status, occurrences of demand influencing factors (DIFs), and exceptions. You can adapt the worklist to suit your requirements. For more information, see:

  • You can display restrictions, exceptions, and time series in separate subscreens. These screens are identical in all workbenches in order proposal management. For more information, see General Screens in Order Proposal Management.

  • You have access to various applications and logs. For more information, see General Functions in the OPM Workbenches.

  • You can create new order proposals and edit existing ones. The following functions are available for editing order proposals:

  • You can create and edit notes for order proposals.

  • You can start the Replenishment Workbench using one particular order proposal number.

  • You can assign product quantities to transportation units at the level of order proposal line item. Based on the transportation unit assignments, you can split order proposals in the SAP Retail system, so that one order proposal corresponds to one transportation unit. For more information, see Transport Load Optimization.

  • You can view the forecast quantity that was preallocated from future periods to earlier periods within the demand horizon of an order proposal item, including the quantities that have been preallocated from future periods to past demand periods and still need to be reserved for the consumption in the future. For more information, see Preallocation.

  • You can view the intermediate results of the order quantity optimization process in the output interface. This helps to verify the order amounts.

  • You can view the corrected consumption history (the corrected consumption value plus the reason for the correction) in the Time Series screen.

  • You can change the delivery date of multiple order proposal items in the Replenishment Workbench by selecting one or more items within an order proposal and choosing the Mass Maint. of Delivery Date (Mass Maint. of Delivery Date) pushbutton. This is useful, for example, if the vendor has changed the delivery date or if you want to have certain products delivered earlier.

    For more information about this feature, choose the Info (Info) pushbutton in the Mass Maintenance of Delivery Date dialog box.

Note Note

When a product is not planned automatically – that is, it is not contained in any order proposal – this may be because certain configurable, critical criteria are assigned to that product. In this case, you plan the product in the Product Workbench. For more details, see Product Workbench.

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Constraints

The following functions cannot be executed in the Replenishment Workbench:

  • Simulation of forecasts and replenishment (what-if analysis) for different parameter settings

  • Interactive execution of forecasting and replenishment (for example, recalculation of an individual item)

  • Workflow-controlled check of exceptions

  • Check of special authorizations for replenishment planners at certain organizational levels (for example, location, location group, product group)

  • Sorting of exceptions for store associates in a planogram-based sequence

  • Changing Master Data

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Exceptions

Manual Release of Order Proposals

Time Series