The Allocation Plan functionality is part of Manual Replenishment in the LS Replenishment suite.
Allocation Plan assists you in the process of creating a Purchase Order to purchase the items from the vendor to the warehouse and using Transfer Order (Cross Docking) / Sales Order (Franchise) to transfer items from the warehouse to store(s), location(s), or customer(s).
Allocation Plan comes with two methods, Allocation Plan Distribute and Allocation Plan Defined. The Allocation Plan Distribute is a top-down approach, which means that the received quantities of the destination(s) are determined by the total quantity which the user wants to distribute. For example, a purchaser decides to buy 500 pieces of shirts and distribute them to all the destinations evenly or based on the weight of each location defined in the allocation rule.
The purchaser has to make the following decisions:
- Affected Items
Which items should be purchased and transferred from the warehouse to the destination(s)? - Qty. to Distribute
How much quantity of the affected item(s) should be purchased and distributed? - Warehouse Buffer %
How much quantity of the affected item(s) should be purchased as buffer stock? The buffer quantity will not be distributed immediately to the destination(s). - Allocation Rule
How should the quantity of the affected item(s) in the warehouse be distributed between the destinations?
To support the purchaser with the distribution of the quantity of the affected item(s) between the stores, the system provides Allocation Rules. Allocation Rules let you set up the shares between the destinations by using Store Group, Store, Location, Customer Group, and Customer as entities to put weights. The shares can be set up manually or calculated by the system.
For items with variants which have weights defined, the distribution of the quantities between individual variants for each destination is determined by the Variant Weight specified in the Variant Framework.
You can open the Allocation Plan Distribute page from the Replenishment menu (Departments - LS Retail - Replenishment - Manual - Allocation Plans).
The following table describes a sequence of tasks with links to the topics that describe them. These tasks are listed in the order in which they are generally performed.
| To | See |
|---|---|
| Create an Allocation Plan Distribute. | How to: Create an Allocation Plan Distribute |
| Add items to the Allocation Plan Distribute Lines. | How to: Add Items to Allocation Plan Distribute Lines |
| Adjust quantities in the Allocation Plan Distribute. | How to: Adjust Quantities in the Allocation Plan Distribute |
| Create Purchase, Transfer, and Sales Orders from Allocation Plan Distribute. | How to: Create Purchase, Transfer, and Sales Orders from Allocation Plan Distribute |
| Copy an Allocation Plan Distribute. | How to: Copy an Allocation Plan Distribute |
| Perform Open-to-Buy checks on Allocation Plan Distribute. | How to: Perform Open-to-Buy Checks on Allocation Plans |
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