The Multi-Company Replenishment concept is a replenishment approach for organizations with multiple legal entities: a central supply chain entity and several decentral sales entities. The replenishment process allows the calculated Replenishment Item Quantity data from decentral sales companies to be consolidated into the central supply chain company, for Replenishment Journal calculation. The Replenishment Journal calculation will process the Replenishment Item Quantity data in the supply chain company together with the calculated Replenishment Item Quantity data that are consolidated from the sales companies. See Location for more information on how to set up locations which are based in sales companies.
The Multi-Company concept:
- a legal entity which is responsible for Supply Chain and covers the following processes:
- central purchase
- warehousing
- distribution to sales companies.
- one or more legal entities which are responsible for Sales and cover the following processes:
- purchase items from Supply Chain company or other vendors
- sell items in the stores.
The replenishment process is performed in a two-steps approach. Firstly, the Replenishment Item Quantity is calculated in each of the sales companies. Next, the Replenishment Item Quantity is calculated in the central supply chain company, and the pre-calculated Replenishment Item Quantity data from the sales companies will be copied to the supply chain company. With this, the supply chain company is equipped with the sales and demand information in the sales companies, enabling it to perform central purchases and distribution of items by creating sales orders to the sales companies. The sales companies can either be the Business Central companies that reside in the same database as the supply chain company's database, or they can be spread across multiple databases. For companies that are spread across multiple databases, the Replenishment web service must be configured to allow the central supply chain company to copy the pre-calculated Replenishment Item Quantity data from the sales companies. For more information on the web service, see Web Service for Multi-Company Replenishment.
When order documents are created from the Replenishment Journal in the supply chain company, sales orders will be created instead of transfer orders if the locations reside in the sales companies.
| To | See |
|---|---|
| Set up the Warehouses, Stores, and Items for Automatic Replenishment. | Basic Setup for Automatic Replenishment |
| Set up the Data Source, Data Source Company, Distribution Location, and Customer No. for Multi-Company Replenishment. | Setting Up a Location for Replenishment |
| Set up the web service for Replenishment Item Quantity data retrieval across multiple databases, and to review the affected Replenishment Item Quantity data in the event of web service connection failure. | Web Service for Multi-Company Replenishment
Replen. Item Quantity Web Service Failure Logs |
| Understand the Replenishment calculation process. | Replenishment Process |
| Set up Replenishment templates and batches. | Replenishment Templates
Replenishment Batch |
| Work with Replenishment journals. | Replenishment Journals
Calculation Log Lines Create Purchase and Transfer Orders |
See also