Example of Replenishment Plans for a Standard Business Scenario

This topic describes how you set up replenishment plans for a standard business scenario.

In this example, an enterprise has a distribution center that's modeled as an organization. The distribution center has buy from sourcing rules. The two warehouses, which are also set up as organizations, source goods from the distribution center using transfer from sourcing rules. The customer demands are fulfilled through the warehouses. The enterprise uses Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP.

Note these points about this example:

• You can use a single replenishment plan to generate the forecast, calculate the policy parameters, and calculate and release replenishment orders for the distribution center and warehouses.

  You can also use separate replenishment plans as follows:

  • A replenishment plan generates the forecast at the distribution center by using transfer orders history and shipments history.

    This replenishment plan also calculates the policy parameters and calculates and releases the replenishment orders for the distribution center.

  • Another replenishment plan generates the forecast at the warehouses by using shipments history.

    This replenishment plan also calculates the policy parameters and calculates and releases the replenishment orders for the warehouses.

• If you're using a single replenishment plan for the distribution center and warehouses, when a planned transfer order is created at the warehouses, an equivalent planned transfer order demand isn't automatically created for the distribution center.

  Planned transfer order demand is created at the distribution center once the planned transfer orders created at the warehouses are released and collected.

• File-based data import (FBDI) templates can be used for uploading data instead of collecting it.
• At any level, you can use a single or separate replenishment plans to generate the forecast, calculate the policy parameters, and calculate and release the replenishment orders.