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Inventory Planning methods?

There are 5 inventory Planning methods as mentioned below:

1) Subinventory Replenishment planning
2) Min-max planning
3) Re-order point planning
4) Kanban planning
5) Periodic Automatic Replenishment(PAR)

Subinventory Replenishment planning

Oracle Inventory provides additional methods for planning and replenishing

inventories. Even if you are not maintaining perpetual on-hand balances in non-
tracked subinventories, for example-you can use the replenishment counting
system to plan your inventories. This may be ideal for replenishing free stock
items that you store on the production floor, or office supplies kept in
departmental cabinets. Oracle Inventory even provides an open interface for
loading replenishment count data collected electronically, such as with a hand held
bar code reader.

Replenishment Counting Tracked Subinventories

In some situations, you may want to do your own planning and use Oracle
Inventory
to create your internal requisitions. When using the replenishment system in this
manner, you provide the system with one of the following pieces of information
(in
addition to the item and subinventory):
• Order quantity. You specify the quantity that is to be ordered.
• Order maximum quantity. Oracle Inventory orders the min-max maximum
quantity.
You can manually enter this information in the Replenishment Counts window
or through an external interface, using the replenishment interface tables

Replenishment Counting Non-Tracked Subinventories

Planning and replenishment of non-quantity-tracked subinventories is different
because Oracle Inventory cannot use perpetual system quantities. As you issue
items from a subinventory without formal issuing procedures, it is necessary to
take inventory of non-tracked subinventories to record item usage and determine
reorder necessity.

In order to determine when and how much to replenish, you periodically

physically count the items in non-tracked sub inventory. Here also you can enter
the count details through batch load transaction such as bar code reader or
manually by navigation. Inventory module permits on hand quantity as an
additional replenishment information type for non-tracked subinventories.

Planning Levels
You can only use the replenishment counting system at the subinventory level. To
use
replenishment counting, you must set up item-subinventory relationships using
the Item Subinventories or Subinventory Items windows.