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Siebel Field Service Guide > Service Inventories > About the Process Flow for Setting Up Service Inventories > Inventory RelationshipsAn inventory location is linked to other locations by relationships that define physical spaces, replenishment sources, fulfillment sources, and cycle counting lists. An inventory structure includes a network of these relationships. You can implement an inventory structure in the following ways:
When fulfilling orders, generating cycle counting lists, or running the Replenishment Engine for a warehouse, all inventories below the Warehouse level (and connected through sublevels) are automatically considered. To improve performance (for example, to avoid traversing the inventory structure every time you want to find all sublevels of inventory for a warehouse), Siebel Field Service uses a denormalized table. This table stores every child, direct child, or grandchild (to any number of levels) of a parent inventory. For example, an inventory hierarchy is defined as follows: Table 27 shows some entries in the denormalized table. You can also relate inventory locations to each other through replenishment. Set fulfillment and replenishment relationships between inventory locations for warehouses, and not for lower levels (for example, aisles, bins, or shelves). When using relationships, the Fulfillment, Replenishment, and Part Locator Engines automatically search for products at lower levels by using sublevel relationships. Configuring a replenishment relationship to indicate that a field office replenishes a trunk might result in overstocking the trunk inventory if the trunk location is already a sublevel of parent inventory. |
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