Demand Planning

Forecasts, demand plans and how contract demand feeds them.

Getting started with Demand Planning
Demand Planning answers one question for every product, week by week: how much do we need to make or buy, and when? It reads what customers have ordered, wh...
Tue, 22 Sep, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Demand planning: how demand is calculated
A demand plan answers one question for every product, week by week: how much do we need to make or buy, and when? It takes what customers have actually o...
Tue, 22 Sep, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Running your weekly planning cycle
A planning cycle is one week's plan for one site. It holds the five records that make up that week — a forecast run, a demand plan, a production plan, a...
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Forecast Settings
Forecast Settings is the account-wide configuration for demand planning: which parts of planning this account uses, when the forecast runs by itself, and th...
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Stock Policies
A stock policy is the set of rules for one product on one site: how much cover to keep, when to reorder, how much to order at a time, how big a batch can be...
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Forecasts and forecast runs
A forecast run projects expected demand for every product that has a stock policy, across a horizon of weeks. It is the expected side of a demand plan — the...
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Forecast Accuracy
Forecast Accuracy compares what was forecast against what actually happened. It answers a question you cannot get from the forecast itself: should you trust...
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Stock Alerts
Stock Alerts is the list of places where stock has moved outside the rules set on a product's stock policy — below its safety level, past its reorder po...
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Production Planning
A production plan turns the part of a demand plan you make into a list of works orders: one product, one quantity, one date to start. It also plans the thin...
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Production Calendar
The Production Calendar lays planned production out as a grid: one row per product, one column per week, for the current week and the three that follow. ...
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