How to Check Projected Stock for a Part in EDGEBIC

To check projected stock for a part in EDGEBIC, you open the Inventory calendar, select the part, and read the KPI strip and projection rows. In EDGEBIC by User Solutions the calendar nets demand against supply forward through your horizon and reports current on-hand, days of cover, and the first projected stockout for the selected part. This post is the quick operational task: get to the numbers for one part and read them correctly.

If you want the full meaning of every projection column, read how to read the projection. This post narrows to the everyday check on a single part. Availability varies by installation, so check which inventory features your build exposes.

Checking projected stock is the fastest planning question you will ask all day, and it is worth doing well because so much rides on the answer. Whether a customer can be promised, whether a part needs restocking, whether a shortage is looming: all of it starts with reading the projection for one part correctly. The calendar does the netting for you, rolling demand against supply forward through the horizon, so your job is to point it at the right part and the right window and then read the four headline numbers and the balance rows without misinterpreting them. The most common error is not a wrong number but a wrong window: judging a slow-moving part on too short a horizon, or reading a planning balance where a firm promise needs the available-to-promise view.

Before You Start

• The part is flagged as a stocked item, so the projection tracks it.
• On-hand and any open build-to-stock orders are current, since the projection reads them as its opening balance and scheduled receipts.
• You know the date or quantity you care about, so you can point the horizon at it.

Open the Calendar for the Part

1. Click Inventory in the left navigation. The view opens on the first part alphabetically with a fourteen-bucket horizon.
2. In the product dropdown at the top, type to filter or scroll, then click the part you want.
3. Stay on the Calendar pane. The projection rebuilds for the selected part.

Read the KPI Strip

Above the projection rows sit four headline cards. Read them first for a fast health check:

Days of cover is blank when there is no demand in the horizon, which is normal for a part with nothing scheduled against it.

Read the Projection Rows

For detail beyond the headline, scan the rows. Each planning bucket shows an opening balance, scheduled receipts, forecast and firm demand, the netted gross requirements, and the projected available balance that carries forward to the next bucket. The projected balance is the number to watch: any bucket where it drops below safety stock is where the part is at risk.

Adjust the Horizon to Fit the Question

• Change the Bucket picker to Day, Week, or Period to trade detail for range.
• Change the Bucket Count spinner to see more or fewer buckets. Sixty weekly buckets reaches far further than fourteen daily ones.

Both changes recompute the projection immediately, because the math runs client-side on data already loaded.

When You Need a Promise, Not Just a Balance

The projected balance answers "will we have stock," but a customer commitment asks a sharper question: "can I promise this quantity by this date without robbing an order already booked." That is what the available-to-promise columns are for. They show, at each supply point, how much stock is free to commit after accounting for demand already promised ahead of it. To promise a quantity for a date, read forward to the first bucket where the cumulative available-to-promise figure reaches your quantity. Reading the raw projected balance instead can lead you to promise stock that is already spoken for, because the balance does not subtract commitments the way the promise figure does. Use the balance for planning and the promise columns for commitments.

Tracing the Balance Across Buckets

If a number looks off, trace it. The opening balance of any bucket equals the projected balance carried out of the bucket before it, so the projection is a chain you can walk. In each bucket, opening plus scheduled receipts minus gross requirements gives the projected balance that carries forward. When a balance drops unexpectedly, the culprit is usually a gross-requirement spike, a forecast or firm demand landing in that bucket, or a receipt you expected that is not there because its order has not been scheduled. Walking the chain bucket by bucket shows exactly where supply and demand cross.

Seeing Many Parts at Once

When the question is about the whole catalog rather than one part, the multi-product matrix is the faster read. It puts every stocked part on its own row against date columns, heat-mapped by status, with an aggregate strip that totals on-hand, counts parts below safety, and sums suggested orders across the plant. Use the single-part calendar for depth on one part and the matrix for a plant-wide scan.

How to Check You Are Reading the Right Picture

1. Confirm the product dropdown shows the part you intended. Every pane follows the selected part.
2. Confirm the horizon covers the date you care about. If it does not, widen the bucket count or size.
3. Cross-check the KPI Current On-Hand against the latest Transaction History balance for a sanity read.

Common Mistakes

• Reading the raw balance for a firm promise. The projected balance is a planning view. To commit a specific quantity by a date, use the available-to-promise columns, which account for demand already committed ahead of supply.
• Judging a slow mover on a fourteen-day horizon. The default window can hide a stockout that is weeks out. Widen the bucket count or switch to weekly buckets.
• Trusting a stale opening balance. The projection is only as good as current on-hand and open orders. If a receipt was not posted, the balance reads high.
• Ignoring a blank days-of-cover. Blank means no demand in the horizon, not infinite stock. It is telling you nothing is pulling the part down in the window you are viewing.

When the check reveals a shortfall, act on it with how to firm a replenishment suggestion into an order. For the concept behind the balance you are reading, see the projected available balance explained, and browse every task in the EDGEBIC how-to library.