Simulate Changes to Policy Values for Items Within a Replenishment Plan

Within your replenishment plan, you can simulate changes to policy values for item-location combinations of the associated segment group.

Changes to policy values for item-location combinations within the replenishment plan persist until you override the changes. These changes also take precedence over the item-location level policy overrides specified in the associated policy assignment set but aren't updated there.

You can use the following tables to simulate changes to policy values for item-location combinations:

• Manage Policy Parameters by Item: Use this table when you want to simulate changes to policy values for all buckets in your planning horizon. Using this table, you can change the minimum quantity, maximum quantity, minimum days, maximum days, reorder point (ROP) quantity, ROP days, and economic order quantity (EOQ) for an item-location combination by using the corresponding override measures.

• Replenishment Workbench: Use this table when you want to simulate changes to policy values for specific buckets in your planning horizon.

  Note: Using this table, you can also simulate changes to the gross forecast, net forecast, adjusted shipments forecast, and planned replenishments by due date for the item-location combination, but these simulations pertain to supplies and demands.Except for the change you make to the adjusted shipments forecast, the other changes are lost the next time you run the replenishment plan with the Refresh with current data option selected on the Parameters tab in the Run Plan dialog box.

Simulate Changes to Policy Values of Item-Location Combinations

Follow these steps to simulate changes to policy values for item-location combinations in the replenishment plan:

1. Do one of the following to open the replenishment plan for which you want to perform the simulation:

   • To open the replenishment plan using the Manage Plans page:

     1. On the Tasks panel tab, under Plans, select Manage Plans.

        The Manage Plans page opens and displays the available replenishment plans.

     2. Select the replenishment plan, and click Actions > Open.

        The replenishment plan opens in a separate tab.

   • On the Plans panel tab, under Plans, right-click the replenishment plan, and select Open.

     The replenishment plan opens in a separate tab.

2. Click the Open drop-down button, and click a pane if you're required to do so.

   The Open Table, Graph, or Tile Set dialog box opens.

3. Search for the Manage Policy Parameters by Item or Replenishment Workbench table, select it, and click OK.

   The Manage Policy Parameters by Item or Replenishment Workbench page opens.

4. On the toolbar, click View > Highlight Editable Cells to identify the cells that you can edit.

5. Filter the rows by a segment and location of the segment group.

   On the Replenishment Workbench page, you must also filter the rows by item.

6. For an item-location combination for which you want to edit policy values, enter values in the editable cells on the Manage Policy Parameters by Item page.

   On the Replenishment Workbench page, enter values in the editable cells for specific days.

7. Repeat Steps 5 and 6 for the item-location combinations for which you want to simulate changes.

8. Click the Save drop-down button.

9. Click Actions Run to run the replenishment plan.

   The Run Plan dialog box opens.

   1. On the Parameters tab, under Scope Options, select the Calculate replenishments check box.

   2. Under Data Refresh Options, select Do not refresh with current data.

      The Manage Replan Details link appears under the option.

   3. Click Manage Replan Details to open the Manage Replan Details dialog box, in which you can see the item-location combinations for which you have made changes. Deselect the check box under Replan for the combinations for which you don't want to run the simulation.

   4. Click Save and Close.

   5. Click OK in the Run Plan dialog box.