1 Replenishment

Replenishment is an order for additional goods from a warehouse or supplier, with the purpose to refill depleted stock in a store or warehouse. Retailers can set up automatic ordering of items using the set of screens present in this module within Merchandising, which would allow the application to monitor the inventory positions at locations throughout a retail enterprise, down to the item/location levels and generate orders as and when required.

Depending on the method used, the replenishment module can be configured to make recommendations, which can be manually added to a purchase order or transfer, or it can create purchase orders or transfers directly, depending on the level of automation desired. Replenishment leverages supplier and location level attributes for scaling and rounding, as well as constraints to ensure orders are processed efficiently and effectively.

The integration of Merchandising with the Demand Forecasting (ORDF) application allows support for sophisticated methods of replenishment in addition to the basic methods intended for slower moving items. Additionally, replenishment being tightly integrated with the purchasing and inventory management functions of Merchandising, has real-time access to the latest inventory positions at all locations to ensure all inventory calculations are performed with correct data values.

In order to manage significant volumes of data relevant to different aspects of business, the Merchandising system also supports replenishment attributes to be loaded from a spreadsheet or in bulk using an xml version of the template layout, or via web service.

For additional information, see the Oracle® Retail Merchandising Replenishment Attribute Update Overview White Paper - Release 16.0.x in the Oracle Retail Merchandising Functional Library (Doc ID 1585843.1).