Hello everyone. I'm having trouble with demand planning. We use an in transit warehouse where we place our POs in, but all our inventory is in a main warehouse, therefore we are unable to use a demand and supply plan for the main warehouse and have it make the PO for the in transit warehouse. (creating the PO for main warehouse and changing it to in transit would mess up information) Does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed with this? Since the whole ability to order to an in transit warehouse is an enhancement with no plan on getting implemented any time soon. We are trying to find other solutions similar to demand planning. We are also looking into the advanced inventory management but there's not really any information on it in Suiteanswers. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Have you looked into other options outside of NetSuite? Generally even if you didn't use an in transit warehouse most people do not like the Demand Planning that NetSuite has to offer.

Just started to today. Anything you'd recommend?

We just went with Valogix, it was a cheap option that has been around for a while and has done a bunch of integrations with NetSuite already. So far nothing to complain about besides pushing back the project by a few weeks. We are still in the steps before implementation and seeing it in action though. We are all pretty excited to see what it can do. I did a lot of the research of NetSuite Demand Planning, but it seemed like there were too many what if scenarios that NetSuite didn't seem to have a solution for.

Thank you, I'll look into Valogix. I am currently looking at Demand Works Smoothie. But yeah, i did a lot of research on the demand planning that Netsuite provided and we were getting ready to implement it until we ran into many problems that Netsuite has no plans of fixing any time soon.

We also looked at Blue Ridge and Demand Caster. We quickly decided to not do Demand Caster for some reason that I don't remember now. For Blue Ridge it was a fancy software with lots of reporting tools, but they had only had 2 or 3 NetSuite customers and they hadn't implemented them fully yet. Blue Ridge was also pretty expensive on top of all that, something like 4 X the cost of Valogix.

Oh wow, i'll stay away from those two then.