Design Details: Supply Planning

This documentation provides detailed technical insight to the concepts and principles that are used within the Supply Planning features in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013.

It explains how the planning system works and how to adjust the algorithms to meet planning requirements in different environments. It first introduces central solution concepts and then describes the logic of the central mechanism, supply balancing, before proceeding to explain how inventory planning is performed with the use of reordering policies.

In This Section

Design Details: Central Concepts of the Planning System

Design Details: Reservation, Order Tracking, and Action Messaging

Design Details: Balancing Demand and Supply

Design Details: Handling Reordering Policies

Design Details: Planning Parameters

Design Details: Planning Assignment Table

Design Details: Demand at Blank Location

Design Details: Transfers in Planning