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Inventory planning involves answering two questions:

• When should you place a new order?

• How much should you order?

Available Features

• Plan any item by establishing minimum and maximum on-hand plus on-order quantity targets. See: Defining Items, Inventory Attribute Group, and Requesting the Min-Max Planning Report.

• Calculate safety stock levels for reorder point planning. See: Entering and Reloading Item Safety Stocks.

• Plan any item using reorder points and safety stock levels. See: Requesting the Reorder Point Planning Report.

• Define non-tracked inventory locations and periodically enter replenishment counts. See: Entering and Processing Replenishment Counts.

• Generate requisitions for any item requiring replenishment. See: Entering and Processing Replenishment Counts, Requesting the Min-Max Planning Report, and Requesting the Reorder Point Planning Report.

• Summarize demand history for a specific inventory item. See: Summarizing Demand History and Requesting the Summarize Demand Histories Report.

• Purge replenishment information including the count name, counting methods, and quantities. See: Purging Replenishment Counts.