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What this page is for

Finished (sellable) goods are the default rows in the supply grid — the products you actually ship to customers. This page walks the everyday loop: read where each product stands, then work the Supply row to close any gap.

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What you see

For each finished good you can add these metric rows:
  • Coverage — DOS (Days of Supply) or WOS (Weeks of Supply).
  • Available — projected on-hand at each period end.
  • Demand — expected outflow.
  • Shortage — projected unmet demand.
  • Supply — incoming stock, including recommendations.
When Show recommendations is on, Spherecast fills the Supply row with blue “recommended” values — replenishment it suggests to keep the product covered. These are suggestions only until you act on them.

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How it works

You turn a recommendation into a real (still draft) order in a few ways:
  • Hover a Supply cell and click the ”+” to Create Purchase Order.
  • Hover a Transfers cell and click the ”+” to Create Transfer Order — move stock from another warehouse instead of buying.
  • Accept an Expedite suggestion to pull an existing order earlier, or a Defer suggestion to push it later.
After any edit, recommendations recompute in the background (watch for the Refreshing supply plan… pill), so the downstream periods update to reflect what you just did. To prioritize, sort by last-90-day sales or forecast so your biggest movers rise to the top of the grid.

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Step by step: a daily triage

  1. Open the grid sorted by Last 90-day sales, descending.
  2. Turn on the Stockout risk exception filter to surface products projected to run short.
  3. For the top product, read the DOS row — find the first period where coverage drops too low.
  4. Look at the Supply row for a blue recommended value near that period.
  5. Hover that Supply cell and click ”+” → Create Purchase Order (or use a Transfers cell to pull stock from another warehouse).
  6. If an order already exists but lands too late, accept the Expedite suggestion; if it lands too early, accept Defer.
  7. Let the plan refresh, confirm the shortage is gone, and move to the next product.

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Example

SKU CB-2010 shows DOS = 6 days in week 3 — below your 14-day target — and a Shortage of 400 units. The Supply row shows a blue recommended 600 units. You hover that cell, click ”+”, and create a purchase order for 600. The plan refreshes: week 3 DOS climbs to 18 days and the shortage clears.

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Where to go next

Note: Orders you create here start as Recommended / Draft inside Spherecast — they are not real yet. Nothing reaches your supplier until you write the order to your ERP.