The projected inventory timeline shows how Gaia expects an item's on-hand amount to change day by day, by combining what you have now, what is arriving on orders, and what your production records will use. It is how Gaia decides whether an ingredient is Ready or has Insufficient inventory.
How to get there
Go to the weekly production view (Production Records / forecasting).
On a confirmed production card, expand the recipe to show its ingredients.
Click the ingredient's inventory status.
The projected inventory dialog opens for that ingredient, headed with the item name and "Projected for [date]".
How to read it
The timeline is a running balance with three columns:
Day (Events): the date of each event. The day you are forecasting for is at the top, and your current on-hand starting point (Today) is at the bottom.
Transaction (Details): what happened on that day. Each row has an icon:
A box icon is your starting On hand amount.
A truck icon is inventory arriving on an order, labeled with the order it came from (for example, "Order for Jun 29th, 2026").
A utensils icon is inventory being used by a production record (for example, "ES Lunch Regular"), shown as a reduction.
Projected (Previous + Σ Transactions): the resulting balance after that day. Each day's projected amount is the previous day's projected amount plus the sum of that day's transactions.
The final projected number is what Gaia compares against the amount the meal needs in order to set the Ready or Insufficient status.
A breakdown of a projected inventory timeline
Reading the example from the bottom up:
Saturday, June 27th (Today): the box row shows 0 on hand, so the running balance starts at 0.
Monday, June 29th: a truck row shows +216 from "Order for Jun 29th, 2026". The order arrives on its delivery date, so the balance becomes 0 + 216 = 216.
Tuesday, June 30th: a utensils row shows 120 used by "ES Lunch Regular", so the balance becomes 216 - 120 = 96.
The header shows the end result: 96 projected for June 30th. Placed orders show up here automatically as truck rows on their delivery date, which is why an ingredient can flip from Insufficient to Ready as soon as you add it to an order. If an order is voided or its delivery date moves, the timeline updates to match.