Can automated replenishment support both inventory optimization and supply planning?

Yes. Automated replenishment is a critical execution layer that connects inventory optimization and supply planning. It translates optimized inventory policies and demand forecasts into concrete replenishment decisions, ensuring alignment between strategic planning objectives and day-to-day operations. Without this layer, even the best planning logic stays theoretical, because the gap between policy and execution is where most service level and working capital losses occur. With it, the same model that sets the target service level and dynamic safety stock also generates the specific order proposals that achieve them, which is the only way to keep inventory optimization and supply planning consistent over time across SKUs, suppliers and locations.