Overview

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Purpose

NOS Dispo is the replenishment planning module for NOS (Never-Out-of-Stock) items in BE-terna Fashion. It allows buyers to determine planned order quantities for colour-based staple items by period, detect shortfalls early, and keep the replenishment plan up to date automatically after release.

Business Value

Combines reference sales, depot quantities, corrections, and a planning factor in a single planning matrix.
Automatically identifies colours and periods where the projected closing inventory becomes negative (shortfall).
Preserves manually set corrections and planned order quantities when a released document is automatically rebuilt.
Supports two planning granularities: by variant (colour and size) or aggregated by colour.
Distributes planned colour quantities to variants using NOS size keys.

Planning Document and Structure

Each Dispo NOS document describes a planning period for one or more NOS items and optionally a vendor. The document header holds the planning type, period type (week, decade, or month), the number of periods before and after the work date, and item and colour filters.

Setup

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Purpose

This page describes the required configuration for NOS Disposition Planning. You first set the global planning parameters in the Fashion Planning Setup, ensure that the relevant items have NOS colours assigned, and create NOS size keys for variant distribution when needed.

Prerequisites

BE-terna Fashion is installed and accessible.
Items and their colours exist in the system.
Locations, number series, and vendor master data are set up.
Users have access to the Fashion Planning Setup and the item master.

Recommended Order

Open the Fashion Planning Setup and maintain all NOS-specific parameters.
Assign NOS colours to the relevant items (activate the NOS flag).
Create NOS size keys when using the Item Colour planning type.

Setup Areas

Fashion Planning Setup

The Fashion Planning Setup contains the global control parameters for NOS Dispo. It is the central starting point and must be fully maintained before a first planning document can be created.

Process Catalog

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Purpose

This process catalog describes the key workflows in NOS Disposition Planning. Use it as a starting point when creating a new planning document, reviewing planning values, analysing shortfalls, or releasing a document for automatic updates.

Context

The basic configuration (Fashion Planning Setup, NOS colours, size keys) is described on the Setup page.
The business context is explained in the Overview.

Prerequisites

The Fashion Planning Setup is fully maintained (number series, NOS default factor).
Items have the relevant NOS colours assigned with the NOS flag active.
Users have the FN Dispo NOS Planning permission set assigned.

Process Catalog

Process Create a new Dispo NOS document Create a new planning document and configure the item filters and planning parameters. +

Open the Dispo NOS Headers list and create a new document. The number is assigned automatically from the configured number series.
Enter the item or item filter in the Item No. Filter field. This field is required before planning lines can be created.
Select the Planning Type: ItemVariant for planning at variant level, ItemColour for planning aggregated by colour.
Select the Period Type (Week, Decade, or Month) and define the planning horizon using Periods Before and Periods After. The total number of columns must not exceed 36 periods.
Set a Vendor No. filter if only colours belonging to a specific vendor should be included.
Set a Colour Filter or Colour Season if the planning should be limited to specific colours or seasons.

Process Create planning lines Generate all planning lines and periods based on the document filters. +

Run the create planning lines action in the Dispo NOS document. The system creates planning lines for each qualifying NOS colour across all configured periods.
The system checks whether a document for the same item filter, colour filter, and start date already exists. If so, an error message is shown and no lines are created.
If an older document with the same filters but an earlier start date exists and is still Open, it is automatically set to Released before the new lines are built. Existing lines of the current document are then deleted and rebuilt.
After creation, review the planning matrix: each colour (or variant) should have rows for historical data, depot, base, plan, and closing inventory.

Process Review and manually adjust planning values Adjust corrections and planned order quantities in the planning matrix. +

Open the planning matrix in the document. Review the Hist row for plausibility of historical reference values per period.
Enter manual corrections in the Correction row to adjust the reference sales for a period. The base value (Base) and planned sales quantity (Plan) are recalculated immediately.
Enter the desired order quantity in the Plan Order row to specify a manual order quantity for a period.
Corrections and planned order quantities are preserved during automatic rebuilds of released documents, as long as the combination of item, colour (and variant), and period start date remains unchanged.

Process Analyse and resolve shortfalls Identify colours with a projected negative inventory and respond with targeted order quantities. +

Enter the number of periods to check for shortfall in the Coverage (Periods) field in the document header. A value of 0 checks all periods.
Review the Has Shortfall field in the document header. If active, at least one colour in the planning matrix has a negative closing inventory within the coverage horizon.
Activate Hide Covered Colours to show only colours with a shortfall in the planning matrix, making targeted review easier.
Enter a Plan Order quantity for periods with a negative closing inventory until the projected closing balance becomes positive.
Deactivate Hide Covered Colours and check Has Shortfall once all colours are sufficiently covered.

Process Release a document and enable automatic updates Release a completed document so it is picked up by the scheduled refresh job. +

Once planning values have been reviewed and shortfalls resolved, set the document to Released using the Release action.
Released documents are periodically updated by a background job (job queue entry). Each run rebuilds all lines, restores manually set corrections and planned order quantities, and recalculates the inventory projection.
When a document is complete and should no longer be updated, set it to Closed.

Process Show customer lines Display optional customer lines to review planning needs at the level of individual customers or head establishments. +

Activate the Show Customer Lines field in the document header to show additional customer lines below the SKU lines in the planning matrix.
Customer lines show reference sales and corrections per customer (head establishment) and period.
Customer lines can be given separate corrections, which feed into the overall correction total of the parent SKU line.

Process Assign an NOS size key and review variant distribution Assign an NOS size key to a document when colour-level planning requires distribution to variants. +

Select the desired NOS size key in the Size Key field in the document header. This is relevant when the Item Colour planning type is used.
The size key determines how a planned colour quantity is distributed across the individual size variants.
Review the distribution shares in the size key using NOS Size Key Card before assigning it to a document.
If no size key is assigned, no automatic variant distribution is performed.

Results

You can create a Dispo NOS document, configure it, and generate planning lines.
You know how to enter corrections and planned order quantities in the matrix.
You can identify shortfalls and resolve them with targeted order quantities.
You understand how the automatic refresh of released documents works.

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Overview

Purpose

Business Value

Planning Document and Structure

Setup

Purpose

Prerequisites

Recommended Order

Setup Areas

Fashion Planning Setup

Process Catalog

Purpose

Context

Prerequisites

Process Catalog

Results