Overview

This article explains how the Replenishments feature works in 3PL Warehouse Manager, including what triggers a replenishment, and how quantity-driven allocation works.

What triggers Replenishment

Replenishment automatically generates a Move Request when a Pick Line location’s Available Quantity falls below the defined minimum and a Pick Job has been completed with the Finish Pick option selected. The Replenishments feature also introduces support for “non-pickable” locations in 3PL Warehouse Manager. Typically, when a pick line location has insufficient quantity, the system allocates what it can from the pick line, and the rest from a storage location that has the item. 

Quantity‑driven allocation 

A key concept related to replenishment is "quantity-driven allocation." It lets a 3PL separate the fulfillment of smaller, typically eCommerce, orders from larger, typically B2B or retail, orders. The system supports this with a quantity threshold for each item. The WMS uses this threshold to decide whether to allocate an order from a pick line (smaller quantity) or from bulk storage (larger quantity). This also prevents the system from allocating a single order from both a pick line location and a bulk storage location.

To avoid this kind of inefficient order picking, the Replenishments feature allocates only from the pick line location. Once replenished, the system automatically allocates overallocated orders from the pick line location.

Learn more

• Enabling and Configuring Replenishments
• Replenishing Inventory in SmartScan