Setting Up a Location for Replenishment

To enable a store for Automatic Replenishment you must activate the corresponding location. For each store record, at least one location is defined for the selling of goods.

The Replenishment setup is defined on the Location Card.

Field Description
Active for Autom. Replenishment You must select this field for the location or store to be considered in Automatic Replenishment.
Use Planned Cross Docking Select this field to show this location in the Location list on the Cross Dock and Buyer’s Push Matrix pages.
Location is a Warehouse Select this field only if the location record is used for a warehouse. Do not select this field if the location record is used for a store.
Replenish as Location Code When the replenishment calculation method is Average Usage, the system will use the applied location code to find sales history information when the average daily sale is calculated.
This field can be used for new locations (a newly opened store) without sales history. The location will be replenished according to the sales history of a template location.
Data Source This field specifies if the location belongs to the local company or another company, and if it consists of child locations. This field also specifies if the location has no physical store present and the stocks are directly consumed from the warehouse, or if the location belongs to a company that resides in another database.

The available options are:

  • Local Company
    - The default option, used to calculate the local company.
  • Local Company (from Child Locations)
    - Used for Master Child Replenishment. Select this option if the location is a master location.
  • Other Company
    - Used for Multi-Company Replenishment. Select this if the location belongs to a sales company that resides in the same database as the supply chain company's database.
  • Calculated (from Item Ledger Entries)
    - Used for locations with no physical stores present. Stocks for these locations are directly consumed from warehouse. Transfer Orders calculation will be excluded for these locations during replenishment journal calculation.
  • Other Database
    - Used for Multi-Company Replenishment. Select this if the location belongs to a sales company that resides in a database different from the supply chain company's database.
Data Source Company This field is used for Multi-Company Replenishment to define the company to which the location belongs. It is only enabled when Data Source is set to Other Company.
Distribution Location Code This field specifies the Distribution Location Code for the location. This is only applicable when the Data Source is set to Other Database. The Distribution Location defines the web service connection to the sales company's database. For more information, see Web Service for Multi-Company Replenishment.
Customer No. This field is used for Multi-Company Replenishment to define the Customer No. used to create the Sales Order. It is only enabled when Data Source is set to Other Company or Other Database.
Sales Order No. Series This field specifies the code for the number series that will be used to assign numbers to Sales Orders created from the Replen. Journal for this Location. This is only applicable when Create Sales Orders per Location is activated in the Replen. Template for the Journal.
Master Location This field is used for Master Child Replenishment to assign the master location to the current child location. For master location, its Data Source must be set to Local Company (from Child Locations).
Effective Inv. Sales Order

Effective Inv. Purchase Ord.

Effective Inv. Transfer Inb.

Effective Inv. Transfer Outb.

Effective Inv. Assembly Ord.

These fields specify if the quantities in the respective order documents will be considered as part of the Effective Inventory for the location during replenishment calculation.

The available options are:

  • Include - The quantities in the documents will be included.
  • Exclude - The quantities in the documents will be excluded.
  • Coverage - The quantities in the documents will be included but only for documents within the coverage days and historical days defined in Replenishment Setup. The coverage days define how far into the future the documents should be included, whereas the historical days define the time horizon fence for the historical period.

Note:
If the field is left blank and there are no Item Store Records defined for the location, the system will instead use the related field setting on the Item level during replenishment calculation.

If an option is selected and when an Item Store Record is created for the location, the selected option for the field will be copied over to its corresponding field in the Item Store Record as default value. The settings in the Item Store Record can be changed, if needed, and will take precedence over the settings in the location during replenishment calculation.

Note: Using the field Replenish as Location Code is a very efficient way of setting up a new store in the system. This lets you replenish the new store by using the sales pattern of another store. This should be used for a limited time only as out-of-stocks or overstocks may occur. But it is simpler to use this method than to create a "calculated" sales history for the new store.

Geodata for locations

Latitude and longitude are the units that represent the coordinates in a geographic coordinate system. Every location has its address (which includes the number, the name of the street, city, post code, and so on), and every single point on the surface of earth can be specified by the latitude and longitude coordinates. LS Central is integrated with the Bing Maps API to populate latitude and longitude from the store or location address. The latitude and longitude can then be used to calculate the route distance, route duration, and direct distance between two stores or locations in Store Stock Redistribution.

See also

Geodata Calculation

Bing Maps API Setup