Adjust Supplier Lead-Time Variances and Simulate Plan

The supplier lead-time variance view shows a summary of item-supplier level delivery performance indicating planned vs. historical lead-time, minimum and maximum range of variance, variance percentage, and variance days. You can adjust lead time and take it to your planning through simulation sets.

Here’s how you do all that:

1. On the Supply Variances view, double-click on the Adjusted Lead Time field and enter your adjusted value.
2. Click Save to Simulation Set.
3. On the dialog box that appears, select a simulation set to which you want to save the adjusted value.
4. Click Save.

   Verify the simulation with lead-time adjustments. When you're good to go, copy the adjustments to your plan and run it based on the adjusted lead-time.

Export Data to a CSV File

You can export the data from lead-time insights into a CSV file. The name of the CSV file is a combination of the UI page name (Suppliers or Order Details) and the scheduled process job ID. For example, Order Details 156207.zip

Note: If an exported CSV file has data spanning more than 5000 rows, then the file is available in the File Import and Export menu option under the Tools menu.

Now that you have the analytics, you can monitor the lead time trends regularly. You can review your lead-time parameters for the item and supplier-site combinations, take decisions, and act on the suggestions shown on Planning Advisor to run the simulations and assess the impact on your plans.