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What this page is for

This is your product master data - one row per product, where a product is one SKU (Stock Keeping Unit, the identifier for a single sellable or usable item). It is a spreadsheet-style table you can filter, edit inline, and import or export in Excel. The fields here are the foundation for everything downstream. They tell Spherecast how to forecast a product, whether and how to reorder it, and how to judge its expiry risk. Get these right and the rest of your planning follows.

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What you can set

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How it affects planning

ABC sets service levels, which shape safety stock. Replenishable, What to recommend, and Order cycle decide whether and how orders are proposed and in what rhythm. Launch and Phase-out dates bound the selling window, and the Phase-out target governs how you wind a product down. Shelf life and Sell-by days feed expiry risk, while the unit and packaging fields translate plans into orderable, shippable quantities.

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Step by step: set up a manually created product

  1. Add a new product (its Type is Dummy, so it stays editable).
  2. Fill in Title, Category, and an Assignee.
  3. Set Active and Replenishable on, and pick What to recommend.
  4. Enter the units and packaging so quantities translate correctly.
  5. Add Shelf life and Sell-by days if the product can expire.

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Example

A refrigerated finished good is Active, Replenishable, class A, recommends Just POs, has a 180-day shelf life, 30 sell-by days, ships as a Reefer truck at 26 pallets to a Full Truckload. Spherecast now forecasts it, proposes purchase orders on its order cycle, and flags it when stock nears its sell-by window.
Tip: Set the Safety buffer and Sourcing suppliers next, then organize products with Groups.