Note: This applies only to accounts with Dynamic Slotting.
The Needs Replenishment Report is designed to help you keep track of which products need to have their picking bins replenished. It is calculated one of two ways:
- There is not enough pickable inventory to pick all allocated orders.
- The quantity in your pickable bins is below the specified Replenishment Level, and you have more stock with which to replenish it in a non-pickable bin.
Note: Replenishment Level is the minimum number of units you want to keep across all your pickable locations. It is not a minimum per location.
The report gives you all the information you need to add more inventory to your pickable locations:
- On Hand - the current quantity you have on hand.
- Allocated - the quantity currently allocated to orders.
- Replenishment Level - the replenishment level set on that product.
- Available in Pickable Bins - the total quantity currently available across all pickable bins
- Qty Needed From Non-Pickable Bins - the quantity that you need to transfer from non-pickable to pickable bins. This could be for currently allocated orders, satisfy the replenishment level, or combine both.
- Orders that need this - the number of allocated orders that have this item. This is an excellent way to see which transfers will likely release the most significant number of orders.
- Top 3 Non-Pickable Bin- the top 3 non-pickable bins, by the quantity that have this product. This will tell you where to transfer the inventory from. This will not include any bin marked as non-sellable.
Once you have this report, you can transfer the inventory using the mobile app or dashboard.
As a best practice, you should be checking this report at least once a day, ideally in the morning, so you know if any inventory needs to be transferred to pick that day. Checking it throughout the day is also a good idea to ensure that no orders are not pickable because they don’t have enough pickable inventory.
Another thing to remember is that if you have many non-pickable products, it will slow down batch generation. As the batch is being generated, if an order is allocated but non-pickable, it will get skipped. If that happens to a large number of orders, especially orders that need to be shipped, the batch will take longer to find enough orders to fill the batch.
