Replenishment Counting
Oracle Inventory provides additional methods for planning and replenishing inventories. Even if you are not maintaining perpetual on-hand balances--in non-tracked subinventories, for example--you can use the replenishment counting system to plan your inventories. This may be ideal for replenishing free stock items that you store on the production floor, or office supplies kept in departmental cabinets. Oracle Inventory even provides an open interface for loading replenishment count data collected electronically, such as with a hand held bar code reader.
Replenishment Counting Tracked Subinventories
In some situations, you may want to do your own planning and use Oracle Inventory to create your requisitions. When using the replenishment system in this manner, you provide the system with one of the following pieces of information (in addition to the item and subinventory):
- Order quantity. You specify the quantity that is to be ordered.
- Order maximum quantity. Oracle Inventory orders the min-max maximum quantity.
You can enter this information in the Replenishment Counts window or through an external interface, using the replenishment interface tables. See: Entering and Processing Replenishment Counts.
Replenishment Counting Non-Tracked Subinventories
Planning and replenishment of non-quantity-tracked subinventories is different because Oracle Inventory cannot use perpetual system quantities. As you issue items from a subinventory without formal issuing procedures, it is necessary to take inventory of non-tracked subinventories to record item usage and determine reorder necessity.
In order to determine when and how much to replenish, you periodically physically count the items in non-tracked subinventories. You enter the count details either through the Replenishment Counts window, or via a batch load transaction such as a bar code reader. Oracle Inventory permits on-hand quantity as an additional replenishment information type for non-tracked subinventories. If an on-hand quantity is entered, Oracle Inventory uses min-max planning to determine whether an order should be placed.
Processing Replenishment Counts
To process the replenishment counts and create requisitions for items that need to be ordered, you run the Process Replenishment Counts program. See: Entering and Processing Replenishment Counts.
Planning Levels
You can only use the replenishment counting system at the subinventory level. To use replenishment counting, you must set up item-subinventory relationships using the Item Subinventories or Subinventory Items windows.
External Interface
Oracle Inventory provides an external interface for loading replenishment count data collected electronically, such as by a bar code reader. Once you have populated the replenishment interface tables, you can run the Validate Replenishment Interface program to validate the counts and put the information into the appropriate tables.
See Also
Entering and Processing Replenishment Counts
