Demand and Inventory Planning
Enterprise Planning contains several types of functionality for demand forecasting and inventory planning.
Demand and inventory planning without an item master plan
If you do not maintain an item master plan for a particular plan item, you must use order planning to plan supply for that item using the following sessions for demand and inventory planning:
Special Demand by Item (cpdsp2100m000)
To enter demand forecasts- Standard ATP and component CTP to support the actual sales process
Items - Ordering (tcibd2100m000)
To apply basic inventory planning by specifying a safety stock and, optionally, a seasonal patternDemand and inventory planning with an item master plan
If a item master plan is maintained for a particular plan item, more advanced functionality for demand and inventory planning is available.
With an item master plan, you can use the following types of demand-planning functionality:
Maintain three types of forecast:
- Automatic generation of forecasts, based on historical demand, or based on sales budgets
- Manual editing of forecasts
- Automatic consumption of forecast by actual demand
To support the actual sales process, an item master plan gives access to a variety of capable-to-promise (CTP) techniques. See also Capable-to-promise, an overview.
With an item master plan, you can use the following types of inventory-planning functionality:
- Automatic generation of inventory plans, based on the safety stock, or based on demand forecasts
- Manual editing of inventory plans