# Spherecast

## Docs

- [Available](https://docs.spherecast.ai/available.md): Your projected available (sellable) inventory at the start and end of each period
- [Channels](https://docs.spherecast.ai/channels.md): Manage your demand-side channels in a spreadsheet: types, sell-by days, eligible products, and per-channel launch and phase-out dates.
- [Custom views](https://docs.spherecast.ai/custom-views.md): Saved, reusable presets of the app's main tables, plus links to the pre-built analytics reports.
- [Data alert settings](https://docs.spherecast.ai/data-alerts.md): Turn individual data alerts on or off and set each one's severity — Information or Critical.
- [A day in the life: Demand planner](https://docs.spherecast.ai/day-in-the-life/demand-planner.md): Follow Maria through a full demand-planning day, from the morning forecast run to pushing consensus down to supply.
- [A day in the life: Manager](https://docs.spherecast.ai/day-in-the-life/manager.md): Follow David, a planning manager, through approvals, consensus, and executive reporting across a full day.
- [A day in the life: Supply planner](https://docs.spherecast.ai/day-in-the-life/sup.md): Follow Susan through a full supply-planning day, from clearing exceptions to placing POs and stress-testing a promo in a scenario.
- [Demand](https://docs.spherecast.ai/demand.md): Total expected consumption of the product in the period
- [Demand profiles](https://docs.spherecast.ai/demand-profiles.md): Build reusable seasonality curves — twelve monthly percentages that reshape a forecast across the year while keeping the annual total unchanged.
- [Days of Supply (DOS)](https://docs.spherecast.ai/dos.md): How many days of forward demand your available inventory will cover
- [Expiration risk](https://docs.spherecast.ai/expiration-risk.md): Inventory at risk of expiring unsold, and the quantity actually expiring
- [Products — General](https://docs.spherecast.ai/general.md): The product master data: names, types, replenishment rules, dates, units, and packaging that drive planning.
- [Key concepts](https://docs.spherecast.ai/getting-started/key-concepts.md): The handful of ideas and terms that make the rest of the guide click into place.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.spherecast.ai/getting-started/quickstart.md): Find your way around Spherecast and get productive on day one.
- [Products — Groups](https://docs.spherecast.ai/groups.md): Build your own hierarchical product groups to slice, filter, and act on products across the app.
- [Adjustments](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/demand-planning/adjustments.md): Change the forecast by editing cells, using the Adjust demand modal, or applying bulk changes — then review them together
- [Baseline forecast](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/demand-planning/baseline-forecast.md): Run statistical forecast runs, let Spherecast auto-select the best method, and catch products whose sales have shifted
- [Building consensus](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/demand-planning/building-consensus.md): Agree the final demand number and push it down into supply planning
- [Filter & display (S&OP)](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/demand-planning/filter-and-display.md): Focus the demand plan on the products, channels, timeframe, and metrics you need
- [Forecast accuracy](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/demand-planning/forecast-accuracy.md): Compare past forecast snapshots against actual sales to see how good your plan was
- [Import & export](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/demand-planning/import-export.md): Download the demand plan to a spreadsheet and upload forecasts or targets in bulk
- [New products](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/demand-planning/new-products.md): Forecast items with no sales history using demand profiles and manual uploads
- [Demand planning overview](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/demand-planning/overview.md): How Targets, the Baseline forecast, and the S&OP grid fit together to produce an agreed demand plan
- [Targets](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/demand-planning/targets.md): Enter top-down revenue or unit goals and let Spherecast break them down to product level
- [Data alerts](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/home/data-alerts.md): The screen that flags data-quality, configuration, and integration problems so your planning runs on clean, complete data.
- [Exceptions](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/home/exceptions.md): The Cockpit's action list of operational supply-chain issues — stockouts, overstock, delays, and more — with one-click fixes.
- [Cockpit KPIs](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/home/kpis.md): The three headline health metrics at the top of your home dashboard — Availability, Inventory value, and Overstock value.
- [Channels](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/network/channels.md): Model each sales channel as a demand source that feeds forecasting, and map channels to products and warehouses.
- [Locations & warehouses](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/network/locations-warehouses.md): Model each storage, production, and fulfillment location, and set the warehouse type that drives replenishment direction.
- [Supply chain network overview](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/network/overview.md): How Spherecast models your real supply chain as a network of nodes and flows it can plan over.
- [Products, SKUs & BOMs](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/network/products-skus-boms.md): Model your catalog and how finished goods are built, so the engine can explode BOMs into true component demand.
- [Suppliers & co-manufacturers](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/network/suppliers-co-manufacturers.md): Model who supplies or manufactures your goods, their commercial terms, and how orders are split and timed.
- [Cash Requirements](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/reports/cashflow-projection.md): Projected cash outflow to suppliers over future periods, split into confirmed and planned spend.
- [Inventory metrics per product](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/reports/inventory-metrics-per-product.md): The workhorse product-level triage list, with per-warehouse detail and a reorder-status filter.
- [Planning overview](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/reports/planning-overview.md): An aggregate, time-phased view of the whole plan for leadership and S&OP review.
- [Supplier spend](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/reports/spend-per-supplier.md): A historical, year-by-year view of realized purchase-order spend per supplier, drillable to product.
- [Creating a scenario](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/scenarios/creating-a-scenario.md): Name a scenario, choose whether to freeze the supply plan, scope it to products, and watch it build.
- [Scenarios & what-if](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/scenarios/overview.md): Test changes to your plan in an isolated copy, then compare the results against your live plan.
- [Batching orders per supplier](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/supply-planning/batching-orders-per-supplier.md): Set a supplier order cycle so Spherecast groups everything due into one recommended purchase order at a regular cadence — for finished goods and raw materials alike.
- [Export a plan](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/supply-planning/export-a-plan.md): Export the supply plan as a background job that matches your current filtered view.
- [Filter & display (supply plan)](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/supply-planning/filter-and-display.md): Use the Filter and Display dropdowns to shape which products and metrics the supply grid shows.
- [Finished-good planning](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/supply-planning/finished-good-planning.md): Read coverage and act on recommendations for sellable finished goods in the supply grid.
- [Supply planning overview](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/supply-planning/overview.md): How to read the supply planning grid and act on replenishment recommendations.
- [Purchase orders](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/supply-planning/purchase-orders.md): How a purchase order buys product into a warehouse, and how ordered breaks into open, in-shipping, and received.
- [Raw-material planning](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/supply-planning/raw-material-planning.md): Plan components and raw materials by exploding the bill of materials from finished goods.
- [Transfer orders](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/supply-planning/transfer-orders.md): How a transfer order moves stock between two of your warehouses, and how to read shipped, in-transit, and received.
- [Work orders](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/supply-planning/work-orders.md): How a work order builds a finished good from its bill of materials, and how to read built vs. planned and committed vs. needed.
- [Writing to your ERP](https://docs.spherecast.ai/guide/supply-planning/writing-to-erp.md): Turn draft Spherecast orders into real orders by syncing them to your ERP.
- [Overview](https://docs.spherecast.ai/index.md): What Spherecast is, who it's for, and how to find your way around the guide.
- [Integrations](https://docs.spherecast.ai/integrations.md): See the data feeds between Spherecast and your ERP, confirm data is flowing, and trigger a manual pull on NetSuite.
- [Markets](https://docs.spherecast.ai/markets.md): Organize demand by region using a hierarchy of markets, then map leaf markets to channels and warehouses.
- [S&OP lines](https://docs.spherecast.ai/s-and-op-lines.md): Configure the editable rows of the demand plan — the adjustment layer between the statistical Baseline and the agreed Consensus.
- [Products — Safety](https://docs.spherecast.ai/safety.md): Set the safety-stock buffer per warehouse-product, choose the method, and tune service levels.
- [Shortage](https://docs.spherecast.ai/shortage.md): Unmet demand in the period — the stockout gap you need to close
- [Products — Sourcing](https://docs.spherecast.ai/sourcing.md): How each product is bought — suppliers, supply share, lot sizes, MOQ, lead time, and pricing.
- [Products — Stocking](https://docs.spherecast.ai/stocking.md): Choose which warehouses stock each product and which warehouse-products are included in planning.
- [Supply](https://docs.spherecast.ai/supply.md): Inbound supply expected to settle in the period, including replenishment recommendations
- [Transfers](https://docs.spherecast.ai/transfers.md): Net stock transfers between your warehouses for the product in the period
- [Weeks of Supply (WOS)](https://docs.spherecast.ai/wos.md): How many weeks of forward demand your available inventory will cover