Understanding Replenishment to Random Locations

Replenishment to random locations enables you to maximize the efficiency of the replenishment process by grouping locations for picking and enables you to replenish items over a set of locations. When you replenish to fixed locations, you replenish to only one fixed picking location at a time. When you replenish to random rule locations, you can replenish items in many random rule locations at the same time.

For example, the constant demand for an item can require you to store a certain item quantity near the shipping dock for picking always. The warehouse has many random rule storage locations that are close to the shipping dock. By setting up replenishment to random locations, you enable the system to suggest replenishment to the random rule locations that are closest to the shipping dock.