I’d love to visit with someone who is using DRP for imports. We import textiles from India and Turkey so we have purchase orders placed, receive goods to an ITR warehouse when we put a container on an ocean shipment, then transfer goods to our main warehouse to fulfill sales orders.
Our goal is for DRP to keep the inventory in our main warehouse to a minimum while keeping supply flowing in the purchase orders and containers in the ITR warehouse.
Obviously DRP generates a lot of data with the requirement plans, safety stock, planned transfer demand, forecasts, etc.
I’d like to hear with anyone who is using DRP and importing goods from overseas using container shipments (no preference on what you use to track containers - just interested in the bulk nature of transfers instead of being able to transfer at any time to meet demand). What tips/tricks do you have to keep this user-friendly for purchasing and inventory management staff? How did you set up safety stocks in each warehouse?