Inventory Planner

Inventory Planner Essentials uses sales and inventory information pulled from Shopify to calculate a forecast. The forecast predicts the demand for each of your variants for the next 18 months. 

There are three main views in Forecasting: 

The Sales and inventory history screen

- The Forecast screen 
- The Forecast details screen 
- The Sales and inventory history screen

View the calculations used to make the forecast 

Edit the lookback period for each variant 

Adjust the forecast per variant using a percentage increase or decrease applied to each future month of the forecast 

- View the calculations used to make the forecast 
- Edit the lookback period for each variant 
- Adjust the forecast per variant using a percentage increase or decrease applied to each future month of the forecast 
- Select variants and go to Purchase

<a href="https://help-essentials.inventory-planner.com/en/articles/9404850-forecast-screen">Learn more about the Forecast screen here.</a>

The forecast details screen allows you to view a detailed forecast for a single variant. When viewing the forecast details for a variant, you can: 

Edit the lookback period for that variant 

- Edit the lookback period for that variant 
- Adjust the forecast per variant using a percentage increase or decrease applied to each future month of the forecast 
- View sales and inventory charts 

<a href="https://help-essentials.inventory-planner.com/en/articles/9404902-forecast-details">Learn more about the forecast details screen here.</a>

The Sales and inventory history screen displays information pulled from Shopify that influence the forecast. You can use this screen to: 

Analyze the ‘Available to sell’ metric 

- Check the synced figures 
- Analyze the ‘Available to sell’ metric 
- View gross sales and return data

<a href="https://help-essentials.inventory-planner.com/en/articles/9404907-sales-and-inventory-history">Learn more about the sales and inventory history screen here.</a>