Send Planner: Send Planner Reference
These are the lookup pages for Inventory → Send Planner. Each one lists what you see on the screen, under the name the screen gives it: the columns and filters of the plan grid, the flags on a SKU, every status a plan, a line or a shipment draft can have, the columns of the export file, and the permissions each action needs. Keep them open while you work through the task pages.
| To… | Go to… |
|---|---|
| look up a grid column, filter, toggle or the phone layout | Send plan grid columns and filters |
| find out what a flag means and how to clear it | Send Planner flags |
| look up a plan, send run, line, listing or shipment draft status | Send Planner statuses |
| look up a column in the Excel or CSV export | Send plan export columns |
| find out who can view, edit or draft, and which API scopes to use | Send Planner permissions |
Messages and how to fix them
Look up a message you see on screen to find the section that fixes it. N and network stand for the number or network named on screen.
| Message | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| The plan could not be calculated: network stock is out of date | A network's stock is older than Network stock is out of date after (hours). | Network stock is out of date |
| This run could not be calculated. | A send run failed, usually on out-of-date network stock. | If the run fails |
| Network was left out of this plan. | The planner couldn't read one network, for example a lost connection. | A network was left out |
| The send plan could not be loaded. | The page couldn't load the plan. | The send plan could not be loaded |
| Network can't be refreshed from here — sync it from its integration page, then recalculate. | AWD, FBT and transfer destinations aren't refreshed from the planner. | Refresh a network's stock |
| This plan is more than 3 days old. Recalculate before creating drafts. | Drafts need a plan under 3 days old. | If the plan is too old |
| The plan was recalculated while this was open. | The lines you selected belong to the old plan. | If the plan is recalculated while the dialog is open |
| Draft shipments is greyed out | The tooltip names the reason, such as a missing permission or a tuning preview. | When Draft shipments is greyed out |
| No draft could allocate its stock. Draft the available quantity, or draft without allocating. | Every source has less stock than the plan assumed. | When a source is short |
| Not drafted: N SKUs have less stock at the source than the plan assumed | One draft's source is short (Short at source). | When a source is short |
| N SKUs were left out of this draft and stay in the plan | The network refused some SKUs, such as FBT under 10 units. | When SKUs are left out of a draft |
| A Failed draft, with a reason under the row, such as "… Retry, or create it on the Warehouse Transfers page." | The draft couldn't be created in the network. | Why a draft fails |
| N order(s) not created: supplier no longer supplies SKU. … | The supplier no longer carries a product on a supplier-direct order. | If an order can't be created |
| A newer run replaced this one, so it is read-only | A later send run replaced this one. | When a run is replaced |
| Enter this send in Seller Central from the SKU list | An AWD draft couldn't go through Amazon's API. | Finish a send you enter in Seller Central |
| The working plan is calculating right now. Promote the scenario once it finishes. | A promotion was tried during a calculation. | Compare and promote a scenario |
| Scenarios are read-only. / Scenarios never create drafts. Promote the scenario first. | You're viewing a scenario. | What you can't do in a scenario |
| You need the Send Planner edit permission / You need the Send Planner draft permission | Your role is missing Send Planner → Edit or Send Planner → Draft. | Send Planner permissions |
| Creating marketplace drafts also needs the "Integrations → Edit" permission | Your role is missing Integrations → Edit. | Permissions the planner's actions also need |
| Allocating stock also needs the "Warehouse Transfers → Create" permission | Your role is missing Warehouse Transfers → Create. | Permissions the planner's actions also need |
Related
- How the Send Planner works: the big picture behind these pages.
- Read the send plan: the Plan tab day to day.
- Export a send plan: how to download the file the columns page describes.
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