Methods and Systems for Collaborative Demand Planning and Replenishment

A vendor managed inventory system that manages inventory across stores of a retailer, the system comprising:

• a retailer network interface configured to communicate with the retailer over a network;
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• a vendor management inventory server capable of communicating with the retailer via the network interface and configured to:
• receive store-level trait and store-level product information at a fixture level regarding first and second fixtures where the fixtures are referenced by fixture identifiers;
• receive retailer planogram information of at least one store of the retailer;
• generate store-level mapped data by matching fixture identifiers in the trait and product information with the planogram information;
• determine fixture-level replenishment levels for products on the first and second fixtures as a function of the store-level mapped data and the trait information;
• trigger a fixture-level replenishment order, by fixture identifier, when a fixture-level the products fall below a determined fixture-level safety stock for the first fixture relative to the to second fixture;
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• enable a vendor to provide the replenishment levels of the products to the store.