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Vol 26 - No 02 - March 2000 Automated Replenishment Automated Replenishment (AR) is an umbrella term covering a number of concepts. Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) Continuous Replenishment Process (CRP) etc that are appropriate to a large number of industries and trading partners. All these processes rely on Inter or Intra Enterprise collaboration and are enabled by the technology of EDI, the Internet and Extensible Mark-up Language (XML). Interest in AR is also being driven by initiatives such as Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) which is increasingly being sited as the next big step toward in supply chain efficiency. MerciaLincs version 5 now offers a new level of support for automated replenishment, a fundamental part of the process to accelerate your supply chain and enable your company to become demand driven. Contact: Mercia Software. Tel: 0121 359 5096 Page number: Page: 6 Word count: Words: approx. 140 Related Topics: Computer systems Efficient consumer response Internet Inventory management
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