Other Tools (Execution and Monitoring)

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 Replenishment suite in LS Central can be divided into four major areas:

In the area of Other Tools 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 calculate and view Open-to-Buy values for purchases planning and stock monitoring. See Open-to-Buy.
Lifecycle Management	To track the sell-through of items within a season and to easily take action. See Lifecycle Planning.
Release Calendar	To release purchase orders at a specific date and time, based on the defined frequency. See Release Calendar.
Stock Requisition	To create Stock Requisitions.
Buyer's Workbench	To distribute and view the Replenishment related documents and tasks in a special view for teams with multiple purchasers or purchaser groups.
Lifecycle Planning Worksheet	To track the sell-through of items within a season and to easily take action. See Lifecycle Planning.
Out of Stock	To calculate Out-of-Stock days. See Replenishment Out of Stock Days.
Store Capacity	To determine how items are being allocated in stores based on the defined store capacity goal and actual used capacity. See Store Capacity.
Stock Coverage	To calculate how long a store is able to continue selling items or groups of items given a sales history and inventory. See Stock Coverage.
Vendor Performance	To track the accuracy of vendor shipments, if they are on time and meet expectations. See Vendor Performance.

Other Tools (Execution and Monitoring)

See also