Understanding Replenishments
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|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 “Pick Done” 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”, which permits a 3PL to segregate the fulfillment of smaller, typically eCommerce, orders from larger, typically B2B or retail fulfillment orders. The replenishment architecture supports this by setting a quantity threshold for each item from which the WMS can decide if the order should be allocated from a pick line (smaller quantity) or from bulk storage (larger quantity). This also prevents the system from allocating orders from both a pick line location and a bulk storage location. To avoid this type of inefficient order picking, the Replenishments feature instructs the system to allocate only from the pick line location. Once replenished, overallocated orders will automatically be allocated from the pick line location.