Replenishment
Use
Replenishment is a method of supplying recipients (sites or external customers) with merchandise on a demand-driven basis. 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 the supply of merchandise.
Replenishment for sites
Here you run replenishment planning for an internal customer (for example, a store) that has a site and customer master record in your system. Replenishment calculates requirements by using previous goods movements, and pays particular attention to sales that were entered at point of sale (POS) in the store and posted as goods issues in POS inbound processing.
Replenishment for external customers
Replenishment for external customers is used in vendor-managed inventory (VMI), to run requirements planning for customers as a service. In this case, you must have access to the customer's sales and stock data. Fore more information, see Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI).
A master record for the customer exists in your system, but there is no site master record available. You can use replenishment planning for external customers both in an SAP Retail system and in an SAP manufacturing system.
Integration
Article (or material)
You can process article-related replenishment data using article maintenance (in an SAP Retail system) or material maintenance (in an SAP manufacturing system).
Site
In the site master, you can maintain the different sets of data for the control of replenishment. You can, for example, determine the type of follow-on documents that are generated.
Inventory management
You can use the inventory management of materials management (MM) 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 also use replenishment for inventory management on a non-article basis (value-only inventory management).
Simplification of master data maintenance by grouping sites with similar requirements into requirement groups
Planned receipts and issues can be taken into consideration using ATP (availability check).
Sales orders, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, or deliveries can be generated as follow-on documents for replenishment planning.
Analysis of 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 the customer's sales and stock data. Customers can transfer this data to you by EDI as part of VMI, for example (see VMI: Receiving Stock and Sales Data).
Only replenishment-based inventory management can be used. You cannot use MM-based inventory management.
Planned receipts and issues cannot be taken into consideration.
Only sales orders are generated as follow-on documents of replenishment planning.
Goods receipts are not confirmed.
Analysis of results from replenishment runs in the replenishment monitor