Stockouts cost more than safety stock. Forecasting reads your ERPNext sales history, accounts for seasonality and lead times, and tells you what to reorder — before the warehouse calls.
SeasonalityTrendLead timeSafety stockWhat-if scenariosSales history
Stockouts cost more than safety stock.
‘We’ll figure it out from the sales report’ is how you discover the item is gone. The cost shows up later: lost orders, rush shipping, angry customers. Forecasting reads the same sales history you’d look at, but does it every night for every SKU, and tells you what to do before the gap.
What you get
Period-by-period projections, per item, per warehouse.
Period-by-period projections
Forecasts per item, per warehouse, broken into weekly or monthly periods. Re-runs nightly as new sales land.
Seasonality in the picture
The model accounts for repeating patterns — year-on-year, holiday peaks, Q4 surges. Demand spikes don’t catch you off guard.
Lead time & safety stock
Reorder timing factors in supplier lead times and your configured safety stock. The recommended reorder date is a real date, not a wish.
What-if scenarios
Override seasonality, demand multipliers, or lead time and re-run instantly. Plan for the campaign, the launch, or the supplier swap.
Shortage flagging
Items projected to drop below safety stock surface on a watchlist. Filter by warehouse, by category, by lead time risk.
Chart and table views
See the forecast as a chart or drill into the table. Export both. Share with the supplier so they can plan too.
How a forecast becomes a reorder
History in. Reorder list out.
01
Sales land
Sales Orders and Sales Invoices accumulate in ERPNext as usual. Per-item, per-warehouse, dated.
02
Nightly forecast runs
A scheduled job projects demand for the next periods. Seasonality, trend, and lead time factor in.
03
Shortage list surfaces
Items projected to drop below safety stock land on a watchlist. Reorder quantity and date already calculated.
04
Reorder placed
Create the Purchase Order from the forecast, or hand the list to the buyer. The cycle starts the next night.
Built for
Wherever stockouts cost money.
Retail and e-commerce
High-SKU catalogues where guessing the long tail is impossible. Forecasting handles the tail.
Distribution
Multi-warehouse inventory where each location has its own demand pattern. Forecast per location, reorder per location.
Manufacturing
Finished-goods demand drives raw-material reorder. Project the next periods so procurement isn’t a fire drill.
Under the hood
On your ERPNext sales history. Open source.
Forecasting reads your ERPNext Sales Order, Sales Invoice, Item, and Warehouse tables — no parallel data model. The model accounts for seasonality, trend, lead time, and safety stock; a Manual Forecast doctype lets you override demand for what-if scenarios. Reports use the native ERPNext chart engine. Open source — you can read the algorithm, tune the weights, fork the report.
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