Control stock levels with Reverse Planning
Pack containers with lines from multiple Sales Orders and ship it all in one go
Combine Sales Order Lines from multiple Sales Orders into a Container – and ship it in one go. From the Sales Order, you can select lines and assign them to a specific container. And then you can manage all lines – at the same time – when you plan shipment of the Container.
In the Outbound Container List, you can overview your current containers and see which you have available, if you have started packing a container, or if it is already shipped.
Always keep track of the available volume, quantity, net weight and gross weight of each Container. The planner can easily check if the Container is full.
The app works for Sales Orders, including Transfer Order Lines. Containers may of course be any kind of unit used for shipment.
Reverse Planning identifies items in Business Central that fall below safety stock within lead time, based on all supplies and demands. Making it easy for you to see which items cannot be delivered within the lead time or on a certain date - allowing you to take appropriate action.
Reverse Planning
suggests actions based on all known supplies and demands
Do you know exactly which items run out of stock before their lead time? Do you always have enough time to restock the item?
With the Reverse Planning app for Dynamics 365 Business Central you can identify all items that fall below the safety stock level within lead time.
This allows you to take action on the items that are most critical, based on all known supplies and demands.
Critical Items in Planning
Suggested Quantity in Planning
Actions in Planning
For the Production Manager
Potential to forecast overall capacity requirements on the basis of product mixes designated by upper-tier products alone.
Potential to forecast and budget commodities for vendors on the basis of upper-tier product mixes.
Faster reaction time for rush orders, including derived requirements.
Happier planners, who can work more flexibly and with greater clarity.
For the Finance and Sales Manager
Better utilisation of the planners’ resources through more qualified and relevant order suggestions.
Better opportunities to focus on products and production orders that are necessary for being able to deliver particular sales orders.
For the Planner and Purchaser
Potential to plan by relevant date interval even if this differs for various products.
More flexible handling of lines in the planning journals.
Grouping of planning in terms of inventory hierarchies, planner codes, and vendors.
Makes visible a product’s “Rolled Up Lead time”, that is, the time it takes to procure the product as well as all products in the hierarchy below it.
Features of Reverse Planning
Calculate all critical items
With Abakion’s Reverse Planning you can calculate which items fall below safety stock level within each item’s lead time or a fixed end date.
This displays the items that need to be addressed in relation to the orders you have in the system here and now.
On the lines in Reverse Planning you can see what the lowest inventory in the period is, with regard to “all known orders”, “forecast” and “planning lines”.
Substitute and complement the planning jobs
If you use planning jobs in Business Central, Reverse Planning can ease the workday of planners and salespeople by showing which items should be handled first to ensure delivery.
If you do not use planning, Reverse Planning can create a sort of “mini-plan” by showing which items need to be addressed in order to prevent a negative balance on your stock. This doesn’t require any setup of master data.
Calculation within lead time
Normally you cannot see the lead time on production items in Business Central. It is calculated and displayed in Reverse Planning, just like you also know the lead time on purchased items.
For example, you can calculate the “item lead time x 1.3 + 5 days”, so that you are working with a period per item where you actually should react, even though some products have long lead times and others can be reordered within a few days.
Focus on critical items when plannings
As a planner it is often necessary to change the planning lines that Business Central suggests, but it is not always easy to foresee the consequences.
If there are a lot of lines in the worksheet, then you can directly calculate the Reverse Planning and see exactly which items from the worksheet are critical and will cause you to fall below safety stock.
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