The safety stock journal is only capable of calculating safety stock based on historic values, which is not sufficient for a lot of industries. We need an additional feature in the create lines function, where the lines are created from a forecast plan or master plan. The plan should adeally This means the calculated Average Issue per month and standard deviation is read from the forecast plan The Calculate proposal needs no improvement, since we can calculate from Average issues or service level (but now based on forecasted values) It should not be too much effort to implement this very useful function Here the user could
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Yes, using future demand as calculation not just historical would be a big upgrade. Something similar to what is currently used in the Kanban calculation policy where you can define the plan and future period demand dates to consider for the calculation along with historical data would be great
Category: Planning
Would be nice
Category: Planning
Administrator on 5/28/2019 11:59:26 AM
Thank you for your feedback.
Currently this is not in our roadmap; however, we are tracking it and if we get more feedback and votes, we may consider it in the future.
Sincerely,
Christian Rytt
PM,
Microsoft.