AIM's Product Forecast is designed to help you take the guess work out of managing your stock holding and production planning.

Where to start

Manage a product's forecast by selecting Advanced Inventory Manager (AIM) in Unleashed's main menu, then either select the product in AIM's Insights tab or go to AIM's Forecasting tab and search for the product.

Tip: The AIM Insights 'Top Performing Products' panel ranks your top products, so consider creating forecasts for these first.

Use Product Forecasts

Once a product's been selected and is populated in AIM's top level Forecasting Tab manage it's individual forecast:

1. Set Demand: In AIM: Product Forecast, you will set the expected demand per month (or copy in a system generated forecast).
   
   
2. Plan Supply: Next, you will apply a stock strategy of how many days stock you want to carry at a minimum and how many days of stock you want to hold at most.
   
   
3. Plan Replenishments: The system will then calculate your products future stock on hand and detail required replenishments incorporating your open transactions and other limitations, such as Minimum Order Quantity. If you enable 'Production Planning' then the replenishments of an assembled item will populate the demand of its components with the quantity and date that the required assembly will need to start, saving you hours of tedious planning work! 

Learn more about Product Forecasts in the following help articles: 

• Forecast Demand Chart
• Forecast Supply Chart
• Set Demand Control Panel
• Plan Supply Panel
• Plan Production Panel
• Forecast Table
• Replenishment Tab
• Component Demand Tab
• Parent Assemblies Tab
• Product Analysis Tab

Check out our How-to guides: 

• Modelling Guide
• Forecasting Guide
• Production Planning Guide