We have an app on AppSource called Graphical Inventory Profile.
It’s free of charge and you can use it just out of the box.
We recommend that you use it together with reverse planning because it’s very good at explaining the lines of your reverse planning.
And you can also update the Graphical Inventory Profile with information from the reverse planning.
For instance here, if I take the item number 1500, I’ve made an example here,and I run the graphical inventory profile somewhere here from the item card.
Just try to write it down.
I have installed the graphical inventory profile of course.
It’s a separate app and maybe in the setup because I have been looking at this profile, I have said on my supplies and demand that I only want to include release production orders and I only want to include release production components and production orders.
So when I view this profile for item number 1500 on location code production, it will look whatever that look in my system with an end inventory of 116.
Now I’m entering my reverse planning journal and I’m not going to explain the graphical inventory profile in itself in this app, because you can read about it in that app separately.
In here, I will calculate the symbol MRP.
I will focus on finding critical items, but in this template, finding critical items, I happen to know that the supplies and demand is set up with farm planned and released production orders and components.
Now, I calculate for critical items on location production to figure out all my items that are critical.
And that’s everything is fine here.
Now, when I click the line for lamp and I want to view the graphical inventory profile, it will automatically figure out that the setup you used in last time you ran the graphical profile is different from the setup you used when you calculated simple MRP and therefore you are asked would you like to update the graphical inventory profile parameters with the parameters from the simple MRP.
When you say yes to this one, it will update the setup for the graphical profile, so you can now use this to explain why does it show up in the simple MRP, what is happening here to all my my supplies and demands and I have a breach here below zero, I’m ending up with minus four on inventory and so on.
So the tool graphical inventory profile is very good at explaining what is happening when you do planning.
This is both in standard MRP planning directly from the item list, all the apps that has to do with availability and planning.