Planned and Order-Related replenishment paralelly?

[martinprokop]

Hi, we had the idea we would have few fixed bins per product, which will be replenished regularly, based on maximum quantity in storage type data of the product. These bins would cover the regular daily demands.
Additionally we wanted to have a number of "dynamic available picking bins", which could be assigned temporarily to a product in case of a peak demand, based on open ODO's in a current wave. These bins would be replenished order-related. So, we wanted to mix both types of replenishment and use them paralelly. Planned replenishment would be run once a day, order-related replen then for every wave.
We customized both replenishment strategies 1&3 for the picking storage type.
During ODO creation, rough bin estimation searches for a possible picking bin and writes it to /SCWM/ DB_ITEMSPL. And here are the first questions:
1. For rough bin determination in ODO's only already assigned fixed bins to the product are considered? That means rough determination cannot assign additional fixed bins to the product, if the required quantity is above the storage type maximum?
2. How does the system reserve the quantities od determined bins (/SCWM/ DB_ITEMSPL) to avoid these bins are determined for another ODO as well?
3. We assume the picking storage type has to have negative quantities allowed (otherwise would system not find the empty/not-yet-replenished fixed bin in rough determination). On the other hand, if we allow negative quantity on storage type level, system can create all picking WT's just from the first one fixed bin of a product, because its negative quantity is not limited. In that case the other fixed bins would not be taken in account during picking WT's creation. Is our assumption correct?

[former_member605608]

Hi Martin,

Will it possible for you to share how the order related replenishment can be planned before the start of actual picking on a given business day?

Also did you get an answer for below.

1. For rough bin determination in ODO's only already assigned fixed bins to the product are considered? That means rough determination cannot assign additional fixed bins to the product, if the required quantity is above the storage type maximum?

[martinprokop]

Hi Juergen, thank you for your comment. It is in line with my recent findings:
Order-related replen has to roughly determine at least 1 fixed bin per ODO item. This means at least 1 fixed bin has to be assigned via /SCWM/REPL before ODOs are created. This bin can cover regular daily demand and will be replenished regularly to a planned maximum.
During order-related replen via /SCWM/REPL the maximum of storage type can be exceeded. It means planned replenishment can fill up one fixed bin up to 100pcs, but if I have ODO for 400pcs, during order-relater replen I can assign another 3 fixed bins and to plan their replenishment for total of 400pcs. Maximum No.of picking bins must allow to select additional fixed bins (e.g. it has to be set to >=4 in our example).
During WT creation for picking, replenishment of picking bins has already to be planned. In this case it is not necessary to allow negative quantities in picking storage type, because the quantitiy in fixed bins should either be already avilable there, or it is planned for putaway by opešn replen WT's.

[JuergenPitz]

Hi,

I can not answer all questions above, never really tried much with order based replenishment. But:

"2. How does the system reserve the quantities od determined bins (/SCWM/ DB_ITEMSPL) to avoid these bins are determined for another ODO as well?"

There is no "reservation" of quantities, that is not how the rough bin determination works. You can create an endless number of ODOs which would all find the same bin.

The other things, you probably have to try (if no-one comes up, who already has).

Brgds

Juergen

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