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Inventory planning
Stock targets for every SKU at every site, set from the forecast's range and the service level each product needs.
Hold what demand needs, not what habit set.
The forecast's low-to-high range shows how uncertain each SKU's demand is. Inventory planning turns that range, your supplier lead times, and the service level each product needs into safety stock, reorder points, and order quantities, so fast sellers stop running out and slow ones stop filling reserve.
- Service-level targets by segment
- Safety stock and reorder points by SKU and site
- Order quantities that respect minimums and pack sizes
- Excess and at-risk stock called out
Built on the forecast.
Inventory planning starts where Demand Forecasting ends. The same range that tells planners how far demand can swing sets how much stock covers it, so there is one view of uncertainty across the plan, not two.
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Demand forecast
Required
A Demand Forecasting run, with its low, most likely, and high by SKU and site.
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Inventory position
Required
On hand and on order by SKU and site.
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Supplier terms
Required
Lead times, order minimums, and pack multiples.
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Service-level targets
Optional
By segment or category. If you don't have them, we set them with you.
Stock targets the warehouse can plan around.
What you receive
- Safety stock, reorder point, and order quantity for every SKU and site
- Days of supply and projected stock across the planning window
- Excess, slow-moving, and at-risk stock, SKU by SKU
- The trade-off between service level and stock held, by segment
Where it goes next
- Purchasing and replenishment parameters for your planning system
- Planned stock, not today's, for a Storage Strategy run to size reserve to
- The inventory half of the monthly sales and operations plan
Inventory Planning is in development as a client portal module, built on the Demand Forecasting engine.