Demand Forecast

Audience: Procurement and warehouse leads who decide what to buy, and anyone evaluating or supporting the screen.

Purpose: Front door to Demand Forecast — generate a run, review lines, then approve and create purchase orders.

Demo data: Every table in this topic uses the fixture run October cover — Block B & Block C for Demo Pharmacy. Those SKUs, warehouses, and rupee amounts are sample data, not a live tenant.

Demand Forecast turns recent sales into a suggested buy. You pick warehouses, the engine writes one suggested order per product, and reviewers adjust days of cover, buffer, packs, and which lines belong on the purchase order.

The sample run below is what a populated review looks like. Your own runs will show different SKUs and totals.

	Demo value
Run	October cover — Block B & Block C
Status	In Review
Warehouses	Demo Block B, Demo Block C (central stock sits at Demo Central)
SKUs	48
Packs on the PO	1,240
Order value	Rs 2,400,000
Default cover	18 Desired Inventory Days (DIDs), buffer 1.25

Three of those 48 lines, used throughout the how-tos:

SKU	Product	SV	Stock days	Packs	Supplier	On PO
DEM-1042	Demo Amoxicillin 500mg	6.0	4	15	Demo Pharma	Yes
DEM-2201	Demo Saline 500ml	2.4	33	3	Demo Medisource	Yes
DEM-0888	Demo Paracetamol 500mg	12.0	0	3	Demo Pharma	Yes

Demo Pharmacy runs list — October cover is In Review. Open it with Review.

The review screen, showing the three sample lines from that run. A full run lists every SKU; these shots stay on the three the how-tos edit.

Pick the kind of help you need

The Academy organises every guide as learn, do, look up, understand.

New here? Start with the tutorial Tutorial: Review your first forecast Walk one demo run from the list into the review table, change cover on two SKUs, and see what the purchase-order totals become.

How-to guides Get a specific task done 3

Approve and create purchase orders Generate a forecast Review lines and bulk-edit

Reference Look up exact facts 2

Review columns, filters, and bulk edit Run statuses and settings

Tutorial Learn the whole flow by doing 1

Tutorial: Review your first forecast

Explanation Understand the why 1

Why the review shows one row per product

How to get there

In the left sidebar, open Replenish Stock → Planning → Demand Forecast.

The list opens on the Runs tab. Generate Forecast starts a new run. Forecast Report leaves this screen and opens Insights → Reports → Forecast Fulfilment, which compares what you ordered with what arrived.

Settings (calculation windows, DIDs, buffer, warehouse mapping) shows only when your role can view forecast settings. See Run statuses and settings.