Purpose of M3 Inventory Planning Workbench

M3 Inventory Planning Workbench is different from a single-item level material planning viewer or any advanced stand-alone planning tools. The application provides an online workbench that supports cross-assortment inventory planning that is available in a single view. It enables you to forecast, assess, and adjust your plan across multiple items in a single screen. The list of items is similar to a spreadsheet where a user can directly specify values where the plan is immediately analyzed based on the adjustments. You can also commit any plan changes to M3 Business Engine. This feature enables you to adjust, firm, and release proposals into orders and apply adjustments to the released MO-manufacturing orders.

(MMS080) displays the material plan for a single item and warehouse. IPW displays a material plan for many items and many warehouses at the same time. The base for IPW is to display the material plan as it is in (MMS080), but IPW also contains options to deviate from the material plan in (MMS080).