Overview

Pallets arriving into racking

Committed POs, per month, against each site's normal receiving rate (average WMS putaways per month, the 12 months before the WMS feed stopped — each putaway is about one pallet).

Open purchase orders

Estimated pallets use each line's pallet quantity at the receiving site. Changes here are part of the plan.

Arriving in the next 30 days

Racking % full and stock value with the ticked POs

Every suggested PO is in the forecast. Untick a PO to take it out; the charts above show the difference.

Transfers instead

Lines that run out before any new order could land, where another site holds more than the minimum cover setting of its own demand. A transfer is the fastest fix.

Nothing leaves an affected supplier from the day the factories close until the first departures after they reopen. Transit is from leaving the supplier to arriving in the warehouse (sea freight, clearance, delivery). Saved with the plan, so a plan can test other dates.

Containers leaving affected suppliers, by week

What the shutdown does to racking, stock value and sales

Lines that run short because of the shutdown

Short with the shutdown and not without it, both with their own suggested POs. Sales at risk is at each line's average selling price over the last 12 months (cost where it has not sold).

Which suppliers stop

Exo has no supplier country, so it is read from the address: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Vietnam (Tết falls on the same days) stop; InMars counts as China because its factories are there. Tick or untick to change it for this plan — check the ones marked not placed.

Each row is a PO: grey is waiting after the order, dark grey is production, the site colour is at sea, the dot is delivery. The red mark is when stock runs out without it, the amber mark when it cuts into safety stock. The chart follows the table's sort and filters below (first 40 rows).

Purchase orders

Dates are estimates: hover a date for where it comes from. "Ask supplier" is the latest dispatch that still lands before the stock is wanted.

Message to the supplier

Pick a supplier to see a ready-to-send note with every open PO and the dispatch date we need. Edit it here, then copy it into an email. Nothing is sent from the planner.

Lines that sold at least three-quarters of the last 12 months' units in one five-month season overlapping this forecast. The standard method uses one seasonal pattern per site, so a strongly seasonal line — coolers and fans in summer — is under-forecast in its season. Project orders pass this test too, so nothing here is applied automatically: choose Use last year for lines you expect to repeat last season.

SKU forecast

One row per SKU across all locations, on the projection (Exo POs, planned orders and ticked suggested POs). Figures under each total are by location; locations with nothing are left out. Hover the trend for each location's graph; click a row for the detail. Click a column header to sort; type under it to filter. Lines that sell but have no stock and nothing arriving are not listed here — see Sold items.

Bin locations off the racking

Every Evexso bin that is not a bay (bays look like 18K5). Stock in bulk, mezzanine and other locations is off the racking; transit / display locations (receiving, dispatch, showroom…) are ignored when working out where a line is kept. Change a class here if the name misleads.

Admins refresh data, load bin files, change model settings, storage and floor values, and manage users. Planners do everything else.