Hey everyone. I am trying to help someone with the...
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laurend
03/14/2019, 4:41 PMHey everyone. I am trying to help someone with their demand planning that they are setting up. They didn’t have locations on before. It doesn’t appear to require multi-location turned on, but they were told locations needed to be turned on and locations added to past transactions. Has anyone had any experience with demand planning and locations and could possibly answer a few questions? I’m doing this as a favor to them and I’ve never had to go backwards before.
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James Morris
03/14/2019, 5:18 PM@laurend IIRC, I don't think you should need multi-location inventory setup. "Setting Up Demand Planning" SA Answer Id: 28067 doesn't have anything about that either.
James Morris
03/14/2019, 5:19 PMNow if they want to do demand planning by different locations, then yes, they'll need to setup those locations and make sure that the inventory and on_order information accurately reflects each location
James Morris
03/14/2019, 5:19 PMBut if they just have one big 'ol inventory bucket, I don't think you should need to turn on locations
James Morris
03/14/2019, 5:21 PMNot sure what would happen if you had already done some demand planning and then needed to turn on locations mid-stream though
James Morris
03/14/2019, 5:25 PMAlso check out "Demand Planning" SA Answer Id: 28004. They have a lot of notes saying "If you use Multiple-Location Inventory..." which would indicate that I was remembering correctly that you don't HAVE to use multi-location inventory
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laurend
03/14/2019, 5:29 PMYeah, I saw those so I was then assuming they didn’t need to use multi location. They only have one location and don’t plan on having anymore. So when they were told they had to turn on locations and update past transactions, do you think that means just the basic location option (then it is more like a class/department)? I don’t know demand planning well enough to know what that basic location setting would do for it. Thanks for your help and glad someone else read it the same way as me
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James Morris
03/14/2019, 5:33 PM@laurend Who told them that they need to enable multi-location inventory? Unless it forces you to do it when you're enabling features and select demand planning, I would just assume that person doesn't know what they're talking about and carry on with setting up demand planning.
James Morris
03/14/2019, 5:34 PMBut yes, locations can be used as non-inventory cost centers similar to class/department, if desired. I usually try not to encourage that, since you'll end up commingling a bunch of stuff if you ever decide you do want inventory locations later.
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laurend
03/14/2019, 5:39 PMThey didn’t say multi location had to be turned on, just locations
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James Morris
03/14/2019, 5:41 PMI'm skeptical of that. Typically when you're enabling features, it's going to alert you to any other features that have to be enabled to make that function work
James Morris
03/14/2019, 5:41 PMSo if you're able to check the box in enable features without getting a pop-up (you don't have to save if you're not ready to actually enable it) then I think you're good to go
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