Automated Continuous Replenishment
•Once the buyer sets the desired product availability and determines the variation in demand and the vendor’s lead time and fill rate, the continuous replenishment systems for staple SKUs can operate automatically.
•However, it is difficult to achieve fully automated continuous replenishment of staple merchandise because of errors in determining the actual inventory.
•To address these problems, store employees need to periodically check the inventory recorded in the system with the actual inventory in the store.