How Replenishment Orders Are Automatically Released

This topic explains how replenishment orders are automatically released.

Settings That Affect Automatic Release of Replenishment Orders

For automatically releasing replenishment orders from a replenishment plan, you must take these steps:

Select the Release planned orders automatically check box on the General subtab of the Supply tab of the Plan Options page.

In the Supply: Advanced Options dialog box, on the General tab, refine the parameters for automatically releasing replenishment orders.
In the Items table, for an item-location combination, set these columns:
- Release Time Fence Type: Select User-defined time fence or Item total lead time for this column.
- Release Time Fence Days: Enter the number of days in this column when the time fence is user-defined. When the time fence is determined by the item total lead time, the preprocessing lead time, processing lead time, and postprocessing lead time are added up and displayed under this column.

When the replenishment plan is run, the following is how replenishment orders are automatically released:

The suggested order date for a planned order for an item-location combination is considered.
The release time fence days for the item-location combination are added to the plan start date for determination of the release time fence date.
When the suggested order date is earlier than or the same as the release time fence date, the replenishment order is automatically released.