The following topics describe how QAD Warehousing handles the replenishment process for a warehouse:

Defining Replenishment
Defines the replenishment process and explains how and why it is used.

Linking Replenishment Lists to Items
Describes how to link replenishment lists to locations/items or storage location groups/items using either Replenishment Location Maintenance (4.16.5) or Replenishment SLG Maintenance (5.16.9).

Replenishment Request
Describes how to use Replenishment Request (4.16.13).

RF Real-Time Replenishment Request
Explains how to setup and execute RF Kanban Scan (1.5) and the prerequisites.

RF Overpick Replenishment and Put Away
Describes how to use RF devices to replenish locations.

QAD Warehousing lets you define areas in the warehouse where the main picking activity occurs. In order for this area to be maintained at the optimum stock levels, the system uses a process called replenishment. The area in which stock is stored prior to picking is generally called the primary picking area. This area would typically contain the stock required for picking first and in quantities and locations that are easy to maintain.

You define the types of items and the quantities that can be stored in the replenishment, or primary picking, locations. Picking functions look in these locations first before searching the rest of the warehouse.

Using the put-away algorithms and storage techniques, you can divide the stock into areas each consisting of common units of storage.

Using warehouse features, you can define:

You define a list using Replenishment List Maintenance (4.16.1), shown in Replenishment List Maintenance (4.16.5).

This means that whenever storage location group 1 must be replenished, the system first looks in storage location group 3. If the item is available, it is replenished according to the picking definition associated with the storage location group.

See Picking Multiple UM.

If the item is not available in this storage location group, then the system looks in storage location group 2, which can be in another warehouse, as shown in First Sample Replenishment List.

If storage location group 2 must be replenished from storage location 3, you would define the replenishment list as shown in the following table:

In this second example, storage location group 1 is replenished from storage location groups 2, 3, 4, and 5. Storage location group 2 can be replenished from storage location groups 1,3,4,5, and so on. To match this example and define the replenishment for storage location group 1, you would have to define the following replenishment list:

At the item/storage location group level, you must define the replenishment list to use in order to replenish the item from storage location group 1.

For storage location group 2, you would define the following replenishment list, attached in the item/storage location group record in the Replenishment List field.