How to Firm a Replenishment Suggestion Into an Order in EDGEBIC

To firm a replenishment suggestion into an order in EDGEBIC, you select the suggested calendar row and click Firm, which creates a build-to-stock order. In EDGEBIC by User Solutions the projection proposes replenishment quantities but never orders anything on its own; firming is the planner's decision to turn a suggestion into a real manufacturing order. This post covers the single-row firm action, what the resulting order looks like, and the step you must not skip afterward.

Firming is the point where planning becomes commitment. For the whole replenishment model, read forecasting and replenishment explained. This post is the narrow task of converting one suggestion. Availability varies by installation, so check which inventory features your build exposes.

Firming is the deliberate boundary between what the system recommends and what the plant commits to. The projection is happy to suggest all day long, but it never spends capacity or material on its own; a human has to decide that a suggestion is real. That separation is a feature, not friction. It keeps the planner in control of what actually enters the schedule, and it means a noisy horizon full of tentative suggestions never turns into a pile of orders nobody chose. When you firm, you are converting a recommendation into a commitment that will consume real work-center time once it schedules, so firm the buckets you mean to build and leave the rest as advice. This is also why nothing here is automatic: the projection could in principle create orders for every suggestion, but that would flood the schedule with builds the planner never approved, so the design stops one deliberate click short and hands the decision to you.

Before You Start

• The part has a reorder method configured, so the projection produces suggestions. A part with no method shows no suggestions to firm.
• You have opened the Inventory calendar for the part and can see a bucket with a suggested order quantity above zero.
• You are ready to run scheduling afterward, because a firmed order has no dates until you do.

Firm a Single Suggestion

1. Click Inventory in the left navigation and select the part.
2. Stay on the Calendar pane.
3. Find a projection row where the Suggested quantity is greater than zero. That is a bucket where the projected balance dips below the reorder trigger.
4. Select the row.
5. Click Firm.

A build-to-stock manufacturing order is created for that suggestion. Its quantity is rounded up to a whole number, its due date is the suggestion bucket's start date, and it is flagged to build to inventory so it posts a finished-goods receipt when completed.

Firming Several Suggestions

There is no firm-all button. To restock a part across several buckets, select and firm each suggested row one at a time. Each firm creates one order for that bucket. Work down the horizon, firming only the buckets you actually want to cover.

What Changes When You Save

A new manufacturing order appears in the order list with a replenishment job number and a scheduled status. It carries a replenishment demand source and the build-to-inventory flag, which is what makes it post a finished-goods receipt on completion. Nothing is scheduled yet: the order has no work-center dates and does not yet count as a scheduled receipt in the projection.

Run Scheduling to Finish the Job

Firming creates the order; scheduling gives it dates. Open Manufacturing Orders, find the replenishment order, and schedule it on its own or include it in the next full run. Once it has dates, the projection reads it as an expected receipt on its completion date, and the shortfall that triggered the suggestion closes.

Canceling a Firmed Order You No Longer Need

Firming is reversible before the build happens. If demand softens or you firmed a bucket in error, find the replenishment order in the order list and delete it. If it was never scheduled or completed, there are no receipts to unwind, so the deletion is clean and the calendar simply drops that expected receipt on the next projection. Even so, the deletion path runs the standard order reversal first, which is safe: with nothing posted to the ledger, the reversal finds nothing to reverse and reports zero. If the order had already scheduled and completed, posting its finished-goods receipt, then deleting it reverses that receipt and on-hand falls back. Cancel early, before the build, and there is nothing to clean up.

Verifying the Order Is Configured Correctly

Because a replenishment order builds to stock, it is worth confirming a handful of properties before you rely on it. The order should carry the replenishment demand source, a job number that marks it as a replenishment order, and the build-to-inventory flag, which is what makes it post a finished-goods receipt when completed. Its due date should be the bucket start you firmed from, and its quantity should be the suggestion rounded up to a whole number. Its status is scheduled but it has no work-center dates and is not yet scheduled, which is the state a firmed-but-unscheduled order should be in. If any of these is off, the order was not created from the suggestion you intended.

How to Check It Worked

1. Open Manufacturing Orders and filter to the replenishment job-number prefix or the replenishment demand source.
2. Confirm the new order has the build-to-inventory flag set, a scheduled status, a due date matching the bucket you firmed from, and the expected whole-number quantity.
3. After scheduling, reopen the Inventory calendar and confirm the order now shows as a scheduled receipt on its completion bucket, and that the projected balance rises accordingly.

Common Mistakes

• Firming the same bucket twice. The suggestion does not disappear on firming; it stays until the order schedules. A second click creates a duplicate order and over-builds the part.
• Forgetting to run scheduling. A firmed order has no dates and is not a scheduled receipt yet, so the projection still shows the shortfall until you schedule it.
• Firming a part with no reorder method. No method means no suggestions. Configure a reorder point or min-max method first so the projection has something to suggest.
• Expecting firming to move stock. Firming creates a planned build, not a receipt. Stock only rises when the order is completed and posts its automatic finished-goods receipt.

Before you firm, confirm the shortfall is real with how to check projected stock for a part. To set the trigger that produces suggestions in the first place, see how to set a reorder point, and browse every task in the EDGEBIC how-to library.