Replenishment is the movement of inventory from upstream storage locations to downstream, picking, and shipment locations. The purpose of replenishment is to keep inventory flow through the supply chain by maintaining efficient order and line item fill rates. In this article, the Replenishment Process in Logiwa will be described.
To use the Replenishment feature in your process, please contact our support team
and they will create a replenishment algorithm for you.
This function is only available for the Enterprise package customers.
In this article, we will explain the steps below;
- Location Setup for Replenishment Process
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Creating Replenishment Tasks & Jobs
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Mobile Replenishment Operations
1. Master Data Setup - Replenishment Location Setup
In the replenishment process, there are two different locations in the system.
- Replenishment Source Locations (upstream locations)
- Replenishment Target Locations (downstream (picking) locations)
The replenishment locations functions should be defined on the Location screen.
- For replenishment sources, the "Replenishment Source" parameter should be enabled.
- For replenishment targets, the "Replenishment Target" parameter should be enabled.
- For the replenishment targets, we need to define the "Picking Constrain" information via the "Picking Const" tab on the Location screen.
2. Create Replenishment Tasks
2.1 Create Replenishment Tasks using the Warehouse Task Processing Screen
To create replenishment tasks, open the Warehouse Task Processing screen and click the "Create Replenishment" button.
Screen Path: WMS → Operations → Warehouse Task Processing
You can filter the locations, that you want to create replenishment tasks, use the suitable criteria on the Create Replenishment pop-up and click the OK button.
After this operation, replenishment tasks will be created.
To create a job type for the replenishment tasks, select the replenishment tasks on the Warehouse Job Processing screen and click the "Warehouse Job List Based on Tasks" button. Create a replenishment job type for these tasks. After that, you are ready for replenishment.
Then, you need to create a job to execute the replenishment tasks via mobile screens.
Select the replenishment tasks on the Warehouse Task Processing screen and click the "Warehouse Job List Based on Tasks" button.
After that, a new job code will be generated for you and you are ready for replenishment.
*The location criteria belong to the target location(s) of the replenishment operation.
2.2 Create Replenishment Tasks using the Warehouse Job Processing Screen
.It is possible to create both replenishment jobs and tasks on Logiwa. You can go to the Warehouse Job Processing screen and then click the "Create Replenishment Jobs" button shown in the image below.
Screen Path: WMS → Operations → Warehouse Job Processing
You can filter the locations, where you want to create replenishment tasks, use the suitable criteria on the Create Replenishment pop-up and click the OK button.
After this operation, replenishment tasks will be created with the replenishment job.
You can check the Replenishment Tasks or Replenishment Jobs from the Warehouse Job Processing screen or from the Warehouse Task Processing screen according to your requirement.
On the Warehouse Job Processing screen, you don't need to create
a replenishment job after the replenishment job creation. On this step,
your replenishment operations are ready to be executed.
3. Execute Mobile Replenishment Operations
The replenishment task execution process has two steps;
- Pick the inventories to a mobile location from the replenishment target locations
- Put the inventories to the replenishment sources from the mobile location
3.1. Replenishment 1st Phase
On this first part of the replenishment process, we pick the products from upstream storage locations to a mobile location.
Screen Path: WMS → Mobile → Transfer Operations → Replenish 1st Phase
Scan job barcode from the job label and assigned cart barcode to pick the items from their upstream storage locations to a cart location and click the ‘Repl by Unit’ button.
- Scan the item’s barcode and enter the quantity that needs to be picked and confirm.
- After this picking process is completed, your source location for the replenishment tasks is updated as the cart location and the status of the task is still in ‘Entered’ status.
The replenishment tasks will be suggested item by item.
After this, the source location of the replenishment tasks will be updated as the "mobile location" and task statuses are still entered.
(i) Exceptional case: While picking the replenishment item, if you cannot find the suggested item in the suggested location, the replenishment task can be skipped using the ‘Skip’ button. After that, you can delete these tasks from the Warehouse Task Processing screen.
3.2. Replenishment
In this part of the replenishment process, we will put the picked products to the target downstream/picking locations.
Screen Path: WMS → Mobile → Transfer Operations → Replenishment
On this screen, you should scan the Job Code or the From Location where is your picked item to be replenished, then click the ‘Repl by Unit’ button.
- Scan the item’s barcode, to the location and enter the quantity that needs to be transferred.
- Complete all replenishment tasks suggested.
There is one more option for the replenishment process. After you scan the Job Code or the From Location where is your picked item to be replenished, then you can click the ‘Repl by LP’ button. This button moves the items based on the LP.
Checking Replenishment Tasks From the Other Screens
The replenishment tasks will be suggested item by item. After this operation, task statuses will be changed to "Completed". Check the ‘Warehouse Task Processing’ screen to see the tasks and their statuses.
Screen Path: WMS → Operations → Warehouse Task Processing
Also, you can see the replenishment logs from the "Transaction History Report".
Screen Path: WMS → Reports → Movement Reports → Transaction History Report
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