Lot-for-lot reordering policy trigged by sales demand. Use this option for plan the items it is not part of the regular inventory.
Setup Stock Keeping Unit Card
Steps:
1, Use search function to find "Stockkeeping Unit"
2, Select New to add stockkeeping unit card
NOTE: Select New if the item card for the item it intended to setup the reordering policy.
Select New Item if the item card is not existed.
3, Fill up the stockkeeping unit information
(1) Select Item
(2) Select Location
(3) Reordering Policy - select Lot-for-Lot
(4) Include Inventory - if selected, business central will fist use the available physical inventory
(5) Lot Accumulation Period - enter the period if you want to combine the demand for a specific period in on 1 order.
For example, if lot accumulation period is 1W, then business central will combine the demand in one week into the requisition worksheet.
Calculate the Inventory Plan
1, Use search function to find Requisition Worksheet
2, Select Process => Calculate Plan
3, Fill up the calculation criteria
(1) Starting Date / End Date - enter the planning period.
(2) Use Forecast - select forecast for include the demand when calculate the plan
(3) Exclude Forecast Before - enter the date for exclude the forecast before the date
(4) enter filter criteria if any.
(5) Click OK to calculate
4. Suggest lines to be calculated in the requisition worksheet with the demand quantity
For the case example below, there is 2 sales order lines with total demand 13 and the shipment date for both order is within the week.
System calculated the suggested order quantity in requisition worksheet is 13 and the due date is the earlies shipment among the sales order.