Demand Planning
Demand planning forecasts how much of each product you'll need and recommends what to reorder, so you can turn a forecast into purchase orders in a few steps. You work on Inventory → Demand Planning: build a forecast from sales history or target stock levels, then choose a baseline method that follows a product's growth or decline, check how far to trust each number, clean one-off spikes out of the history, plan for promotions, and run the forecast on a schedule. The Inventory Planning report gives you the same reorder view across every supplier at once. The same page plans what to make as well as what to buy, with the ingredients your builds need ordered alongside, and shows FBA units Amazon has misplaced that are likely to come back.
| To… | Go to… |
|---|---|
| understand how sales velocity and days of supply are measured, and what a stockout does to them | How sales velocity and days of supply work |
| decide how much of the stock you already have to send to Amazon FBA and AWD, Walmart WFS and TikTok FBT, rather than what to buy or make | Send Planner |
Plan and replenish
Read the Inventory Planning report, plan what to make and buy, turn forecasts into purchase orders, and replenish on a schedule. Start at Plan and replenish.
| To… | Go to… |
|---|---|
| see stock, velocity and reorder suggestions for every product and order by supplier | Use the Inventory Planning report |
| plan what to make, buy and move from one forecast, and create the draft orders | Plan what to make and buy |
| forecast demand and turn reorder suggestions into purchase orders | Forecast demand and replenish stock |
| run a forecast automatically and create purchase orders on a schedule | Replenish stock on a schedule |
Buy within your cash
Work out what you can afford each week, rank every reorder line by the margin it protects per dollar, and order what fits. Start at Buy within your cash.
| To… | Go to… |
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| understand weekly headroom, the ranking and the cut line | How cash-constrained buying works |
| enter your cash, credit and reserve | Set your buying capacity |
| rank a plan by cash and pin lines in or out | Rank the plan by cash |
| create purchase orders for the lines that fit | Generate orders within your cash |
Tune the forecast
Choose how much history drives demand, follow trends and promotions, fix anomalies, check forecast confidence, and see missing FBA units. Start at Tune the forecast.
| To… | Go to… |
|---|---|
| choose how many days of sales each product's daily average consumption (DAC) is averaged over | Choose how much sales history drives daily average consumption |
| make forecasts follow growth and re-use a past promotion | Forecast with trend-aware baselines |
| see FBA units Amazon can't find and how many are likely to come back | See missing FBA units likely to reappear |
| see which reorder quantities to trust, and why | Check how far to trust a forecast |
| find and fix sales days that distort the forecast | Review demand anomalies |
| measure a promotion and plan the next one | Plan for promotions with promo windows |