Last year I wrote about inventory planning in Microsoft Dynamics NAV (most of them is for NAV2013 or/and NAV2013R2) on my old blog. I think, I can make small reminder on these articles, because this is always current topic.
This is small ‘Table Of Content’ with links to the articles on my blog on the Microsoft Dynamics Community.
- Inventory Planning – part 1 (Microsoft Dynamics NAV): The basic Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 planning concept as flowchart;
- Inventory Planning – part 2 (Microsoft Dynamics NAV): The basic Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 planning concept as flowchart;
- Inventory Planning – part 3 (Microsoft Dynamics NAV): Flowcharts for calculating of date for methods of stock demands and availability (Purchase Order Time Calculation, Production Order Time Calculation, Sales Order Time Calculation, Transfer Order Time Calculation);
- Inventory Planning – part 4 (Microsoft Dynamics NAV): Flowchart of demand and supply situation of the item and calculation of the projected available balance;
- Inventory Planning – part 5 (Microsoft Dynamics NAV): Net Actual Demand against the Forecast in Manufacturing Planning (flowcharts, descriptions and examples);
- Inventory Planning – part 6 (Microsoft Dynamics NAV): The base planning setup (Inventory Setup, Manufacturing Setup) – initially global planning setup in NAV;
- Inventory Planning – part 7 (Microsoft Dynamics NAV): The specific Item Card Planning Setup;
- Inventory Planning – part 8 (Purchase Planning in Microsoft Dynamics NAV): Operational work in planning process for purchase.
- Inventory Planning – part 9 (Manufacturing Planning in Microsoft Dynamics NAV): Operational work in planning process for manufacturing.
- Inventory Planning – part 10 (Microsoft Dynamics NAV): Reordering Policy examples:
- Inventory Planning using many locations – SKUs – 1
- Inventory Planning with SKU – 2 (demand flowchart)
OK, I need to finish with remaining subtopics, and because of that I made this reminder here.
Totovic Dynamics 365 Blog 
Microsoft Dynamics NAV is good enough for inventory planning and control, but if you have manufacturing company, and need to plan production, we recommend to look also to other MRP systems.
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I would like to see your tool in the action :).
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Thank you, Aleksandar, for publishing our comment, and interest.
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Hi Marko,
This is in reference to Part 10.2 Scenario 1 in your article.
Item A, Inventory = 0, Sales Order = 750, Sales order date = +10D, Safety Stock = 50, Reorder Policy = Fixed, Reorder Point = 100, Reorder Qty = 1000, Min Order Qty = 200, Max Order Qty = 2000.
In my planning worksheet this creates 3 order proposal lines:
– for safety stock 50
– for reorder qty 1000
– and also for sales order 750
Which makes qty on demand = 1800 vs your calculation of 1050.
Could you help with what am I missing here? Is it because of the sales order date? What cycle should be checked to have a result same as yours?
Any suggestion will be very helpful. Thank you.
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