In Merchandise Plan, when you flow on order to receipts or put in receipts plan, or basically set the beginning inventory, you can use the Generate Inventory function to project inventory positions over the selected time frame. You can either use the manual Generate Inventory function or you can turn on the Auto Generate Inventory mode on and the system automatically calculates the inventory positioning.

To turn on the Auto Generate Inventory, follow the steps below:

Let's say you are looking at a future time frame plan data, only the first time frame will be editable for you to adjust inventory positioning.

Let's say you are looking at a time frame data where the actualization is turned on, then you will not be able to edit the current time frame or other time frames that you see on the plan.

Let's say you are looking at a time frame data where the actualization is turned off and you are looking at the plan data only, then you will be able to edit the current time frame.

Let's say you are looking at a time frame data where the actualization is turned on, then you will not be able to edit the current time frame or other time frames that you see on the plan.

Let's say you are looking at a past time frame data where the actualization is turned off and you are looking at the plan data only, then you will be able to edit the first time frame.

You can also turn off the Auto Generate Inventory mode and continue using the manual Generate Inventory. To do so, follow the steps below:

Let's say you are looking at a future time frame plan data, only the first time frame will be editable for you to adjust inventory positioning.

Let's say you are looking at a time frame data where the actualization is turned on, then you will not be able to edit the current time frame or other time frames that you see on the plan.

Let's say you are looking at a time frame data where the actualization is turned off and you are looking at the plan data only, then you will be able to edit the current time frame.

Let's say you are looking at a time frame data where the actualization is turned on, then Generate Inventory function will be disabled.

Let's say you are looking at a past time frame data where the actualization is turned off and you are looking at the plan data only, then Generate Inventory function will be disabled.