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# Cash Requirements

> Projected cash outflow to suppliers over future periods, split into confirmed and planned spend.

## What this page is for

**Cash Requirements** projects the **cash you'll owe your suppliers** over future periods, so you can see spending peaks before they arrive. It lays spend out over time — **monthly or weekly** — and breaks it down **by supplier**, so finance and planning share one forward view of purchasing cash.

Use it to answer questions like "how much will we owe in October?" and "which suppliers drive that peak?" — and to separate the spend you're already committed to from the spend that's still a plan.

## Confirmed vs Planned

The key idea is that each period splits into two kinds of spend:

| Bucket        | What it is                                                                                                                                    |
| ------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Confirmed** | Spend from purchase orders (POs) **already placed** in your ERP — money you're committed to. (An ERP is your company's system of record.)     |
| **Planned**   | Spend from POs **not yet committed** — those in **Draft**, **Pending Approval**, or **Recommended** status. Real cash only if you place them. |

This split lets you read the report two ways: Confirmed is what you already owe; Confirmed plus Planned is the full picture if the current plan goes ahead.

## How payment timing is worked out

Spend lands in a period based on **when payment is due**, not when the order was placed. For each shipment:

> **Payment due date = shipment ETA + payment terms**

**ETA** is the Estimated Time of Arrival. The **payment terms** are taken in order of preference: from the **PO** if it has them, otherwise from the **supplier**, otherwise a **30-day default**. So a shipment arriving in early October on 30-day terms shows up as cash due in early November.

## Controls

| Control                   | What it does                                             |
| ------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Only confirmed orders** | Hides Planned spend so you see just your committed cash. |
| **Hide payment terms**    | Removes the payment-terms detail for a cleaner view.     |
| **Yearly totals**         | Rolls the periods up into full-year figures.             |
| **Export**                | Downloads the projection to share or reconcile offline.  |

## Drilling in

Any supplier-and-period cell is **drillable**: open it to see the **POs and line items** behind the number. That's how you check a surprising figure — you can trace a big month straight back to the specific orders and products driving it.

## Step by step: plan next quarter's cash

1. Set the view to **monthly** and look across the next few periods.
2. Read each month as **Confirmed** (already owed) plus **Planned** (owed only if you place those POs).
3. Turn on **Only confirmed orders** to see your hard commitments alone, then turn it off to see the full plan.
4. Find the peak month and **drill into** the biggest suppliers to see which POs and line items drive it.
5. **Export** the projection to hand to finance.

## Example

A planner opens Cash Requirements and sees October running high. Toggling **Only confirmed orders** cuts the month nearly in half — most of the spike is **Planned**, from Recommended POs not yet placed. Drilling into the top supplier shows two large orders arriving late September; on 30-day terms, their payment falls due in October. The planner now knows the peak is discretionary and can defer if cash is tight.

> **Tip:** When a month looks alarming, check the **Confirmed vs Planned** split first — a peak made of Planned spend is still yours to change. See [Purchase orders](/guide/supply-planning/purchase-orders) for the order statuses behind the buckets, and [Supplier spend](/guide/reports/spend-per-supplier) for the historical counterpart to this forward view.