Inventory | Demand Forecasting
Velocity, days of stock and run-out dates per item — the planning view that tells you what to reorder before you need it. Enterprise toolkit.
The Inventory Planning table is really a forecasting tool: it reads your sales history per item and turns it into “how long until this runs out”. Available on the Enterprise plan.
The forward-looking columns
Velocity/day — the sales rate: units leaving per day, per location.
Days of stock — available ÷ velocity: how long current stock lasts at that rate. This is the column to watch.
Run-out — the projected date it hits zero; filter and sort by it to see the most urgent items first.
ABC class — each item's share of your sales, so the forecast attention lands where the money is.
Turning forecast into action
Compare days of stock against your supplier's lead time: when days-of-stock approaches lead time, it's time to buy. The reorder point automates exactly that comparison and flags the item Reorder — then Create purchase order takes the flagged items straight into a PO.
Tips
Forecasts read history; a product that launched last week has no meaningful velocity yet. Give new lines a couple of weeks before trusting their numbers.
Seasonal spikes break naive velocity — raise safety stock ahead of known peaks rather than trusting the average.
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