Product Warehouse Product Setup - Ordering - Usage overview

The window is accessed by clicking the Usage link in Product Warehouse Product Setup-Ordering.

Usage is defined as the rate of anticipated demand for a stocked item in the period ahead, expressed as so many units per month. This includes sales and transfers out. Usage rates form the basis for replenishment control calculations, which in turn, generate the service and inventory results.

Set up this information during the initial warehouse product setup if the historical usage for this product is known. Otherwise, usage history is developed from recorded history and is built each month when Product Administrative Month End Processing is performed.

Usage is displayed as normal and transfer usage. Normal is reflected in the Usage column as demand for the product regardless of its sourcing: replenished by a vendor or transferred from another warehouse. Transfer usage reflects only those quantities that were transferred from a branch location through a WT transaction.

To view all rows and columns of history, use the scroll bars at the bottom and right of the scrolling area. To override usage, place your cursor in the Override Usg column and change the value. You can also update the override reason, stockout days, number of times and average inventory value. Click Update after you have made changes to these values to update the record.

Line hits are tracked based on the number of times a product occurs on an order. Line hits are used to measure the volume of sales for products and are used to rank products or monitor slow moving or frozen products.