The Manage Scenarios page enables you to create different supply planning scenarios, by entering parameters and assumptions. For example, it can be used for "what-if" analysis, to understand the impact of different factors on the supply plan.
Parameters
| Parameter | Value |
| Honor Frozen Horizon | If set to yes, the scenario is based on the initial frozen planning horizon, which is shorter than the lead times. |
| Honor Lead Time | If set to yes, the scenario respects the lead time for the stock to become available. |
| Honor MOQ | If set to yes, the scenario is based on having to honor a Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ). |
| Honor Order Multiples | If set to yes, the scenario is based on the order in multiples set in the DC Planning dashboard. |
| Honor Committed Purchases | If set to yes, the scenario includes all open purchase orders and those with a future delivery date. Purchase Orders with a past delivery date are ignored, even if the PO has an open balance. |
| Prevent Honor PO Level Commitment Overrides? | If set to yes, you can't select which POs to include/exclude at the individual purchase order level. |
| Lock Scenario | If set to yes, the scenario is locked and can't be changed. |
Steps
To add an inventory scenario:
- Select Add Scenario.
- Specify a Display Name.
- Select Submit.
- Change the scenario as required:
| Value | Description |
| Is Committed Plan | If selected, the scenario displays an inventory projection based on the on-hand inventory, committed inbound (in transit, open supplier purchase orders and open intercompany orders) and demand. This represents how the current committed inventory meets the demand, and prevents the scenario from simulating any new receipts. |
| Use Prod plan production? | If selected, the scenario includes the outputs of Production Planning as an additional inbound receipt. If simulations are still allowed, the new receipts are calculated after the inclusion of inbound from the production plan. |
| Use Prod plan constrained demand | If selected, the demand is forced to be equal to the outbound shipments calculated by Production Planning. With this set, the demand reflects the constraining choices made by the production plan, rather than the unconstrained demand from demand planning. |
| Apply inventory policies to Prod plan result | If selected, production plan receipts are manipulated to adhere to the reorder cycle and Order Multiple constraints of the production plan. If unselected, inbound receipts from production planning have the pure timings and quantities calculated in production planning. |
| Turn off simulated receipts | If selected, the scenario is prevented from simulating any new receipts. This value differs from Is Committed Plan in that it doesn’t prevent some of the other planning inputs like “Honor” parameters and manual receipt inputs. |
To delete an inventory scenario:
- Select the Delete? box to the right of the scenarios to be deleted.
- Select Delete Scenario.
Additional information
There must be only one Committed Plan to represent the current committed status. A scenario must be selected as the basis for downstream planning.
