Forecasts & Stock Alerts
Days-of-cover and act-by dates for every position, with alert levels and per-FC drill-down.
The Forecasts page
Planning → Forecasts is the alert view over every inventory position: On Hand, Inbound, Effective (on hand + inbound), Days Left, Act By, and an alert badge. Healthy positions stay out of the way — the page says so when nothing needs attention.
Alert levels
• Out of stock — nothing available now.
• Critical — projected to stock out inside the reorder window.
• Low stock — approaching the reorder point.
• FC imbalanced — the network total is fine, but individual fulfillment centers are uneven; expand the row (▸) to see per-FC positions and which FC trips the alert.
"Rolled up" rows aggregate a 3PL network; the drill-down shows each FC underneath.
Act By
Act By is the last date you can start an order (or transfer) and still receive it before stockout — runout date minus lead times and buffer. It's the same math as Replenishment's "Reorder by", so the two pages always tell the same story. A daily "Reorder needed" notification digest covers products whose vendor order window is open or overdue.
Demand algorithms
Forecasts use the same demand algorithm you picked on the Planning tab (EWMA by default — recency-weighted; alternatives include trailing 30 days, full-history average, peak/median week, and same period last year). Statistical forecasting with trend and seasonality runs behind days-of-cover numbers, and manual overrides are available for known events like promotions.