LS Replenishment is a fully integrated module designed to support the purchase department with proposals, what to order for the warehouse(s) and the stores, to avoid out-of-stock situations, and to have the right items at the right place at the right time.
The LS Replenishment suite in LS Central can be divided into four major areas:
- Planning and Data Maintenance
- Automatic Replenishment
- Manual Replenishment
- Other Tools (Execution and Monitoring)
In the area of Planning and Data Maintenance LS Replenishment supports the following processes:
| Process | Function |
|---|---|
| Budgets | To create sales and purchase budgets and compare actuals with the budgets. See: Retail Sales Budgets and Retail Purchase Budgets |
| Open to Buy | To create Open to Buy views to compare actuals with sales budgets. See: |
| Assortment Management | To build assortments to define which items are replenished in which warehouse and store locations. See:Retail Sales Budgets |
| Lifecycle Management | To track the sell-through of items within a season and to easily take action. See: Lifecycle Planning, Lifecylce Curve |
| Item Import | To easily import item master data from vendors, allowing different formats and filetypes per vendor. See: How to Import items |
See also
Replenishment Implementation Guide