Summary
The projected Stockouts screen shows you information about items that you are projected to stock out of, and is the home for the Projected Stock Out Alert. This includes information about items projected to go below their panic point in the future as well. This article walks through the various fields on the Projected Stockouts screen.
Column Description
The upper portion of this screen is dedicated to details about your projected stock out. In addition to the usual columns for item, site, description, categories, notes, etc., you have the following columns.
Additionally, you can right-click on any row to get a helpful context menu.
- Alert Icons - This screen is associated with the projected stock out alert, so you can activate/suspend/ignore alerts here in this grid.
- On Order Quantity - What is on order of this product. Items that at least have some on order may solve their out-of-stock issue sooner rather than later
- Worst Below Panic Pt - How far below panic point does this item get according to projections?
- Worst Below OOS - How far below your out-of-stock quantity (usually 0) does this item get, according to projections?
- Worst Below Panic Pt $ - Value, in the item's stocking currency, of that projected below panic point position. Helps you prioritize the largest dollar impacts first.
- Worst Below OOS $ - Value, in the item's stocking currency, of that projected below out-of-stock position. Helps you prioritize the largest dollar impacts first.
- Next Scheduled Ship Date - when an order is next scheduled to ship from the supplier
- Next Scheduled Dock Date - when an order is next scheduled to arrive at your shipping dock
- Next Supply Order # - what is the next order scheduled to arrive?
- Next PO Remaining Qty - and what quantity is on it?
- Projected Below Panic Pt - What date do we project to be below panic point?
- Projected Out Of Stock - What date to we project to be out of stock?
Detail Tabs
In the lower half of the screen are several detail tabs to help you determine your course of action.
- Order Schedule - The order schedule for the primary supplier of this item
- Sawtooth - Graphical representation of the sawtooth chart for this item's projected schedule
- Open Supply Orders - A list of open supplies for this product that may help with solving the stock-out when they arrive - this would be a list of potential expedites.
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Expedite Recommendations - StockIQ will provide a list of supply order expedite recommendation(s) where possible, for all supply orders not already shipped, in order to help solve the stockout.
- TIP: Use the "Include All Sites" option in the display options for this if you wish. You can also set the expedite-up-to target quantity here as well.
- Substitutes - Shows a list of possible alternates or substitutes for this item, such as inventory at another location, replacements, shorter LT vendors, or even alternate part numbers, similar to the Substitutes feature in the Place Orders screen.
- Alternates - Shows inventory status of any/all alternates for this product, both at alternate sites, and alternate part numbers.
- Alerts - A grid showing other alerts for this item, such as late PO's, open customer demands, forecast errors, and so on.