The Inventory Planning application allows you to plan your inventory by configuring forecasts, components, and transferring inventory.
See Inventory Planning processes for an index of all the available processes.
| Section | Description |
| Home | Manage the processes the application uses to calculate the inventory levels needed to meet demand and adhere to organizational inventory holding and ordering policies. |
| Inventory Planning Overview and Alerts | Enables you to manage how the inventory plan calculates the inventory levels needed to meet demand. It also helps you adhere to organizational policies on inventory holding and ordering, and provides alerts. |
| Demand Interface into Inventory | Import the demand forecast data into the inventory planning application and align inventory with forecasts. |
| DC Disaggregation | Translate the output from a demand forecast onto the DCs which will need to meet that forecast. Generally, the demand forecast is by product and customer. |
| Analysis | Review the inventory plan and its associated analysis in the inventory planning application. |
| ABC-XYZ Product Location | View and manage product demand segmentation, categorization, and analysis based on revenue (ABC), and demand variability (XYZ) in terms of their location. |
| Forecast Assumption | Assume that actual sales orders reduce, or consume the forecasted quantities. This ensures sales orders aren't treated as additional demand to the forecast during a planning period. It also provides alignment of the Consensus Plan output with actual demand to provide a mitigated demand requirement to supply. |
| Inventory Planning Preparation | Access and manage various aspects of inventory planning preparation. It also helps to calculate the inventory levels needed to meet demand and to adhere to organizational policies on inventory holding and ordering. |
| Inventory Transfers | Plan for an amount of inventory to be moved from one place to another. For example, for situations where out-of-the-ordinary rebalancing needs to take place. |
| Inventory Planning | Calculate the inventory levels needed to meet demand. It also helps you adhere to organizational policies on inventory holding and ordering. |
| Sourcing | Set up the supplier master and sustainability categories. |
| Component Planning | Contains dashboards to manage forecast archiving for use in waterfall analysis. These dashboards can be used to review, compare, and analyze forecast accuracy by forecast delay. |
| Reporting | Contains dashboards reporting on the health of the inventory. |
| Application Configuration | Allows an administrator to manage the inventory planning application settings at a global level. These act as the system's default settings. |
| Routine Maintenance | Create and manage the period rollover, product effectivity, and manage forecast archive parameter values. It also allows you to control how they're used throughout the application. |
