M3 Inventory Planning Workbench

Inventory Planning Workbench is an online planning workbench that supports various roles and activities related to viewing, analyzing and planning your material inventory in M3.

In the workbench you have a configurable spread-sheet style grid for viewing and/or simulating and editing inventory, demand and supply across multiple variable time-buckets. Filtering of items and color-coding of cells helps the user to focus on exceptions like low-stock, short coverage time, orders vs forecast deviations, expiring stock and more. Configurable columns allow the user to add information about forecast fulfillment percentage, dynamic coverage time, planned reclassifications and other measures and KPIs.

You can tailor an unlimited number of favorite views to support various roles and activities across your organization. Each favorite view allows for a complete setup of item- and warehouse-selection, time bucket lengths, filtering on exceptions, color-coding and more.

Related tabs provide detailed information about the aggregated data in the grid. These tabs display item-level M3 screens for material plan, stock balances and more.

For authorized users, the workbench allows for editing the MRP-forecast as well as adjusting, firming and releasing manufacturing proposals into manufacturing orders. Released orders can also be planned from within the workbench.