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Advanced Shipment Notice (ASN)
An electronic data interface (EDI) transaction from vendor to retailer which identifies the vendor number, order number, carton contents and store destination for a particular delivery.
Indicates whether the algorithm allocates to gross need or net need.
Approved
A status that indicates the items on the allocation are reserved in the warehouse and committed to the stores. The allocation is executed on the release date.
Bulk
One purchase order is created for the total quantity of the selected items and assigned to a virtual warehouse.
Class
The fifth division in the merchandise hierarchy. The class breaks down the merchandise hierarchy. A class can belong to one department.
Closed
A status that indicates that the allocation has been executed and reconciled. It cannot be edited.
Complex group
A method of combining stores or groups of stores to indicate how stores are included or excluded from the allocation.
Corporate rules
A type of rule. Gross need is gathered directly from the selected column of the corporate table for the items and stores selected.
Cross dock
A purchase order that directs the goods from the supplier to a warehouse. At the warehouse, the inventory is not put into storage, it is immediately allocated to the proper store or warehouse.
Deconsolidation center
An import receiving location that is owned by a third party and facilitates the receiving of import purchase orders. Inventory is never held at these locations as they are flow-through locations. A deconsolidation center may ship inventory to any active location.
Department
Belongs to a group in the merchandise hierarchy and provides a way to define the areas of a group. A department is the fourth division in the merchandise hierarchy.
Direct to store
A purchase order is created that directs the supplier to ship the items on the purchase order directly to the final location.
Enforce store-warehouse relationship
Stores selected are supplied by the warehouse in the merchandising system.
Even Spread
A group editing method whereby each location receives a portion of the items on allocation. The quantity received at a location is calculated by dividing the total number of items on the allocation by the number of locations on the allocation.
Exclude intersection
A method used for creating complex groups. An exclude intersection includes all locations that are not duplicated in the groups selected.
Expected inventory
The difference between what is currently available in the warehouse and inventory that is in transit or on-order quantities.
Extracted
A status that indicates that the allocation instructions have been sent to the warehouse. It is not editable, cannot be retracted, and the status cannot be changed.
Forecast
A type of rule. Uses the forecasted sales for items, stores, and time in the system, interfaced from the client forecasting system, to generate need for each location. The item is forecasted at the department, class, subclass, style, SKU, or item list level as you determine.
Future Fulfillment
Based on the warehouse release date. It contains all inbound inventory including on order, in transit, expected transferred inventory and expected allocated inventory.
History
A type of rule. Uses the sales history for the items, stores, time and sales type selected for the allocation to determine the amount sent to each location. You can include regular, promotional, and/or clearance sales. You can collect the sales history at the department, class, subclass, style, SKU, or item list level.
History and plan
A type of rule. Values are gathered from sales history and plan tables for items, stores, and time. History values are gathered for past dates and pertain to sales types, and plan values for future dates. Gross need is the total of the two.
