For purchasers, inventory managers, material planners, and others responsible for maintaining stock levels, the Item Planning Review app for Dynamics 365 Business Central Manufacturing helps optimise item reorder-point parameters, minimum order levels, and other variables. Users can dial in their item planning using historical item data to avoid stock-outs and surplus stock.
Item Planning Review provides a host of filters to help users focus on specific frequencies, periods, items, categories, locations, and more. For example, users can view all items associated with the plumbing category by month in the last quarter of a specific year. The worksheet will display detailed item information, including average usage. The average usage metric is very useful because users can see how much of a specific item is being shipped or consumed on average. Based on this information, different item planning tasks can be performed.
Once users have filtered specific items, the Item Planning Review app makes it easy to adjust stock levels thanks to several options. Options include
