Demand 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 pattern

• Demand 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:

    • Demand forecast
    • Extra demand
    • Special demand
  • 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