Overview
The Supply Plan helps you understand what will happen to your inventory in the future and what actions you should take.
It combines three key ideas:
What do you expect to sell (your plan)?
What inventory is already coming (confirmed purchase orders)?
What should you order (recommendations)?
Everything is shown by time period (monthly or weekly), so you can quickly see:
Where are you safe?
Where are you at risk?
Where should you take action?
The Big Picture
For every product and warehouse, the Supply Plan answers four questions:
How much do I plan to sell?
How much of that can I realistically fulfill?
What inventory is already coming?
What should I order, and when?
Step 1: Understanding Planned Demand
What this means
Planned demand is simply how much you expect to sell in a given period.
We look at expected sales day by day, then roll them up into monthly or weekly totals.
Important detail: past sales are included
If you are already partway through a month:
Sales that already happened are added back into the plan
This ensures the month shows the full demand, not just what’s left
Why does this matter?
Without this, the current month would always look artificially low.
Step 2: Understanding Fulfillment Buckets (Very Important)
Not all planned sales are equal. Some are safe, some are risky, and some are already lost. To make this clear, we split planned demand into four categories based on inventory availability.
The 4 Categories Explained Simply
Category | What it means in plain English |
Achievable | You can fulfill this with current stock, comfortably |
Safety Stock | You can fulfill this, but only by dipping into your buffer |
Orderable | You don’t have stock now, but you could still order in time |
Unachievable | It’s too late — even ordering now won’t help |
How this is determined
The system looks at:
How much stock do you have?
How fast are you selling?
Your supplier's lead time
Your safety stock buffer
Then it asks, day by day:
“Will we have stock available for this demand, without breaking our safety rules?”
Step 3: Period Summary (Monthly or Weekly View)
Once each day is classified, everything is summarized into a single row per period.
Example: One Month, One Product
For a given month, you might see:
Planned sales: 150 units
Achievable: 80 units
Using safety stock: 50 units
Orderable: 10 units
Unachievable: 10 units
This tells you immediately:
Most of the plan is feasible
Some of it is risky
Some demand may be missed without action
Step 4: Understanding Incoming Deliveries
What counts as an incoming delivery?
Incoming deliveries are only purchase orders that already exist:
They’ve been marked as Ordered in Prediko
They have a delivery date
They are expected to arrive in the future
Note:
Recommended orders are not included here.
Why does this separation matter?
We keep a strict separation between:
What is confirmed
What is only a recommendation
This prevents the plan from looking overly optimistic.
How do deliveries affect the plan?
When a delivery arrives:
Inventory goes up
Future risk may decrease
Stock coverage improves
This impact is reflected automatically in:
End-of-month stock
Days of stock remaining
Achievable vs risky demand
Step 5: Recommended Orders (What You Should Do)
What recommended orders represent?
Recommended orders answer the question:
“Based on what’s coming and what we plan to sell, what should I order — and when?”
There are two types:
What should you order now?
What you’ll likely need to order later?
These are grouped by month so you can plan purchasing in advance.
Final Supply Plan Row: How to read it?
For each product and period, the Supply Plan shows a single consolidated view.
Example Interpretation
Planned: 150 units
Achievable: 80 units
Safety stock: 50 units
Incoming deliveries: 100 units
Recommended order: 50 units
Days left at the end of the month: 25
This means:
You can meet most of the plan
You’re partially relying on safety stock
You already have inventory coming
You should still place a new order to stay healthy
Key Metrics Explained Simply
Metric | What does it tell you? |
Planned Quantity | How much do you expect to sell |
Achievable Plan | Sales you can make without stress |
Safety Stock Plan | Sales that use your buffer |
Orderable Plan | Sales you can still save by ordering |
Unachievable Plan | Sales you’re likely to miss |
Incoming Deliveries | Inventory already on the way |
Recommended Orders | What you should order |
Days Left | How long will the stock last |
Stock Level | Inventory at the end of the period |
An Important Principle
The Supply Plan never assumes you will place recommended orders. This is intentional.
If recommendations were treated as guaranteed:
Risk would disappear artificially
Every future month would look “perfect.”
Real inventory issues would be hidden
Instead, the Supply Plan:
Shows reality as it stands today
Highlights where action is needed
Let's you stay in control of decisions
To summarize in one sentence
The Supply Plan shows what you want to sell, what you can sell, what’s already coming, and what you should do next, without assuming perfect execution.