Plan Items with Safety Stock Targets with No Demand

You can plan items with safety stock targets even if there is no demand yet for the items.

For example, you want enough safety stock to support demand for new products with long lead times even when you can't formally forecast for the new products or don't have any sales orders.

Where there are no forecasts or actual demand yet for items, use the safety stock planning method Safety Stock Quantity to plan safety stock. Also, select the Include items with only safety stock as demand option on the Plan Options page, Scope tab. The supply planning process plans for safety stock, even if there's no actual demand to ensure that there's stock on hand to support any unexpected demand.

The Include items with only safety stock as demand check box is available for supply plan and demand and supply plan types for constrained and unconstrained supply planning. This check box isn't available if the Supply Planned Items plan option is set to All planned items.

Steps to Include Items with Only Safety Stock as Demand

Perform the following steps to plan items with safety stock targets in your plan for which there is no demand.

1. In the Product Information Management work area, use the Manage Items task to set the Safety Stock Planning Method item organization attribute to the Safety Stock Quantity value.

2. In the Supply Planning work area, open your plan and navigate to the Plan Options page, Scope tab. In the Supply Planned Items section, select the Include items with only safety stock as demand check box.

3. Navigate to the Plan Options page, Safety Stock tab and set the options to one of the following:

   • Set the Safety Stock Planning Method field to the User-specified values for all items value.

   • Set the Safety Stock Planning Method field to the Statistical for end items, user-specified for all others value. Next, select the Apply the override quantities for safety stock check box.

   • Set the Safety Stock Planning Method field to the Statistical safety stock for end items, none for all others value. Next, select the Apply the override quantities for safety stock check box.