Production & Demand Planning

Demand Planning answers the question every manufacturer asks every morning: "what do I actually need to make right now?" Instead of manually cross-referencing low-stock items against what's already in production, it does that cross-referencing for you — surfacing exactly which finished goods need a new Work Order, based on real, current stock levels and forecast demand.

Who this is for

Manufacturers and food & beverage producers deciding what to schedule next.
Operations teams who want production decisions driven by real stock data, not a whiteboard and gut feel.
Businesses juggling multiple open Work Orders who need a single view of what's already in motion vs. what's still needed.

Production & Demand Planning — the main screen

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1. WHAT YOU SEE

Production → Demand Plans brings together:

Low Stock Items — finished goods currently below their reorder threshold, the same reorder-point logic used across the rest of the inventory system, applied specifically to items you make rather than buy.
Open Work Orders — production runs already in progress, so you don't double-plan something that's already being made.
Completed Orders — recently finished runs, for context on recent output.
A Forecast Days window and date-range filters, so you can look ahead by a chosen horizon rather than only reacting to what's already critically low today.
Filter by Location, for businesses producing at more than one site.

2. FROM PLAN TO ACTION

Seeing a low-stock finished item here isn't just informational — New Work Order is one click away, turning the planning insight straight into action without switching screens or hunting back down which item needed replenishing.

Demand-to-production flow

Low Stock Item Demand Plan Work Order

3. HOW IT CONNECTS TO THE REST OF THE SYSTEM

Reorder planning — the same safety-stock and reorder-threshold settings you configure on a finished item's product record (see Products & Inventory guide) are exactly what drives what shows up here as "low."
Work Orders — plans convert directly into new Work Orders, which then follow the full production lifecycle (see the Production Work Orders guide).
Production Scheduling — once a Work Order is created, it appears on the Kanban scheduling board for shop-floor management.

4. WHY IT SCALES FROM SMB TO ENTERPRISE

Small manufacturer

See what's low, click New Work Order, and you're done — no spreadsheet needed to decide what to make next.

Growing operation

The forecast window and open-order visibility prevent both stockouts and accidental overproduction of something already in the pipeline.

Enterprise / multi-site

Location-aware planning means each production site plans against its own real stock position, not a single blended, misleading company-wide number.

Quick Reference

Quick reference — where things live

  Demand Plans ............................. Production > Demand Plans
  Create a Work Order from a plan .......... Demand Plans > New Work Order