Currently we are assessing inventory demand for purchasing qty or selling remaining inventory by demand from actual customers orders, kit assemblies, transfer orders. For retailers that have not submitted an actual sales order within an expected period, but we are expecting them to order, we are currently using TR orders or fake SO to count their potential order qty. However it is difficult to keep track of the fake TR/SO orders especially if the retailer does actually send the order in on time and we have had times where we duplicated the demand because the fake order and the legitimate order were present. Idea to resolve this is to create SO type with but treat it as QT but reflects as hard demand. But was curious if there was another way to do this other than making another order type.
As a quick context point before demand planning and MRP suggestions, the products we carry are almost always one time purchases, there is no restock, so this makes it important that we don’t overshoot or undershoot purchase qty.
