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What this page is for

The S&OP grid is your demand plan — one big table of metrics across months. Before you start adjusting, you narrow it to what you care about and choose how it’s laid out. The toolbar has two sides: Filter (which rows appear) and Display (how they look).

Filter

Filters are grouped by what they narrow.

Sales

FilterNotes
MarketRenameable; hierarchical (a tree you drill into)
ChannelThe sales channel

Items

FilterNotes
CategoryProduct category
GroupCustom groups; combine with union or intersection
ABCA, B, or C class
ProductIncludes a Replenishable only toggle and a live results count

Display

ControlWhat it does
View modeToggle metric-first vs level-first layout
HierarchySwitch between category-first and channel-first
Metrics to displayChips to show or hide each metric row
TimeframeThe month or year range shown
GranularityWeekly or Monthly
UnitUnits or Revenue
Sort byName or current-month volume
Current monthTotal vs To-date

Additional toggles

  • Abbreviate large numbers
  • Actuals of inactive products
  • Constrain discontinued products
  • Show past forecasts
  • Quarterly totals
  • Yearly totals
The last two (Quarterly and Yearly totals) apply to the monthly view only.

What you see under the toolbar

  • A row of filter chips showing what’s currently applied — click to remove.
  • A graph you can focus by clicking any row in the table.

Default metrics

Out of the box, the grid shows these rows:
MetricWhat it is
TargetTop-down goal
ActualWhat actually sold
Open Sales OrdersOrders on the books but not yet shipped
BaselineStatistical forecast
Baseline Adj.Baseline plus included adjustment lines (derived)
ConsensusThe agreed number
Forecast Gap (Abs.)Distance between the plan and the goal
Open Sales Orders rows expand to per-line detail, and you can mark each line reviewed as you work through them.

Example

A planner opens the grid, filters to Market = Midwest, Channel = Retail, and Category = Frozen. They switch Granularity to Weekly and Unit to Units, turn on Quarterly totals, and sort by current-month volume so the biggest movers sit at the top. Clicking a SKU row focuses the graph on that item’s Baseline and Consensus over time.
Tip: Set your filters before you adjust. Many adjustment guardrails depend on how narrowly you’ve filtered — see Adjustments.