Does Your Replenishment Run on Autopilot or Just Generate Recommendations?
Most retail chains would call their replenishment automated. There’s an ERP, a planning system, sometimes several layered on top of each other. Yet cycle after cycle, someone still adjusts a purchase order, steps in ahead of a promotion, or moves stock between stores by hand. This self-test for ops and supply chain leaders at retail chains takes 5 minutes and 8 questions to show how many replenishment decisions your team still makes manually and whether you see stock risks before they reach the shelf. Your answers place you in one of four quadrants, each with a plain read of what it means and one concrete next step.
A quick reality check for teams weighing their next move in automated replenishment, built to compare how your process runs today with how you’d describe it.
Format
5 minutes
Reading time
English
Language
What you’ll walk away with:
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A 5-minute check on whether your system makes replenishment decisions or your planners still make them
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A clear view of where your team’s hours go each cycle, and which of those decisions shouldn’t need a person at all
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Proof of whether you’d see the next stockout in time to stop it, or only in the report afterwards
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A shared language for talking with your team and leadership about how automated your process really is
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One next step you can start this week, matched to where you landed
