The Application Configuration section allows an administrator to manage the Inventory Planning application settings at a global level. These act as the system's default settings.
The key components of the Application Configuration section are:
- Global Parameters: Enables a system administrator to manage the parameters that control the supply planning process and configuration at a global level.
- Manage Scenarios: Helps you to create different supply planning scenarios, by entering parameters and assumptions.
- Lists - Create Empty Placeholders: Helps you to manage the pre-creation of blank list items for use in various areas of the planning process.
- Lists - Delete Orphans: Helps you to identify and delete orphaned items, meaning they don't sit under a parent in their respective hierarchy.
- Transfer Lanes - Manage Settings: This page and its related sections enable you to manage the available transfer lanes between different locations.
- Transfer Lanes - Edit Lead Times: Helps you to view and update the required transfer lanes for different transportation modes.
- Manage Inventory Policies: Allows you to define and create inventory policy types and policies, and set each policy's parameters.
- Manage Days Supply Targets: Create and delete inventory supply targets for inventory. These are the number of days a business wants to have enough stock on hand to meet demand.
- Manage Sustainability Questions: Allows supply planners to view and manage the sustainability categories and questions.
- Fixed Allocation Customer to DC: Shows the disaggregation percentages at a customer and location level when the disaggregation bias is set to fixed disaggregation.
- Filtering - Manage Time Filters: Manage the available time filter choices, and which pages these they apply to.
- Filtering - Manage Product Filter: This page and its related sections enable you to manage the custom public product filter options.
- Filtering - Manage My Product Filter: This page enables you to manage the My Product custom filter options.
- Alerts - Manage KPIs: Allows you to manage how the KPIs are evaluated and prioritized in the exception and alert reports based on the selected options.
- Alerts - Manage Workflow: Helps you to set the configuration for inventory planning workflows.
- Reporting - Manage Days Supply Categories: Create and manage the days supply categories for inventory reporting. You can create, edit, and delete categories.
- Reporting - Manage Age Categories: Define the inventory age categories across your inventory planning dashboards.
- Reporting - Manage RSL Categories: Helps you define the remaining shelf life (RSL) categories for inventory reporting across the inventory planning dashboards.
- Reporting - Manage Geo Map: Helps you configure and manage geo mapping for a location, supplier, and customer.
