Advanced Replenishment

Advanced Replenishment Module (ARM) is an enhancement to the statistical methodology of MMS® Auto Replenishment. It allows you to significantly increase the accuracy of the replenishment formula while substantially decreasing the manual effort to manage JDA®’s MMS replenishment. The enhancements provide workflow improvement and increased productivity.

Replenishment System Features:

  • Automatic creations and management of Store/Class level seasonality profiles. – Store/Hierarchy or Store/SKU levels now supported.
  • New SKUs default to their configured profile level.
  • Item chain forecast for Statistical Replenishment utilizes a new rolling 12 months class distribution allocation table to automatically breakdown an item’s chain level forecast to an item’s store level forecast.
  • Automated management of Store and warehouse “order any” and “order up to” quantities based on rolling 52 week turn performance of configured levels (hierarchy down to sku/store)
  • Transfer demand documents generated for the warehouse by zone.
  • Enhanced tracking of store and warehouse “Lost Sales.”
  • Extended SKU/Store replenishment simulator for improved order verification.
  • Spike Management
  • Replacement (linked) SKUs 
  • Extended “Same-as” SKU/Store Management
  • Expanded Vendor Constraint capabilities
  • Enhanced Replenishment Suggested Order Review (Visibility to Vendor constraints, Add to predistibuted order capability, Release selected stores from batch, Auto-Release of batches meeting Vendor constraints)
  • Extended Product Schedule Filters (Allow creation of upcoming Seasonal Booking)
  • Replenishment ability to turn on/off dating by distribution code
  • Last 4 week replenishment sales forecast compared to actuals in new dashboard gauge
  • Measure Suggested Order changes
  • Ability to use 12 months allocation table to allocate pre-distributed POs and post-distribution batches
  • Seasonal Lead Forecasting and Seasonal Period Management
  • Low Order Up To Override capability
  • Maximum Weeks of Supply Overrides
  • Automated Dynamic adjusting of Manual Forecast
  • Promotional event management integrated with weekly replenishment.

Warehouse System Features:

  • (Must utilize MMS Warehouse)
  • Accounts for upcoming store need, as calculated from Advanced Store Replenishment, instead of upcoming  sales/shipment forecast.
  • Summarizes each store’s need based on each store’s forecast, expected availability, order at position and order up to position.
  • Accounts for warehouse availability, vendor lead time, summarize store need, warehouse “Lost sales,” and safety stock.
  • Enhanced Replenishment Suggested Order Review includes items/store view and auto removal of orders less than 50% of vendor minimums.
  • Timely replenishment cut-off for seasonal items based on vendor lead items.
  • Warehouse Allocation Exception Management.