All about - Configuration settings (Advanced)

These articles aims to provide an explanation of what each Configuration setting means, insight into how changing the value will affect an app instance and recommendations of suitable values.

Each parameter will consist of:

a formal definition;
a formal use case;
an informal explanation written in layman's terms to assist if a full understanding isn’t obtained by this point; and
frequently asked questions (if available).

Throughout all articles, the term “parameter” and “setting” will refer to the following:

Parameter - the Configuration option, available for adjusting.
Setting - The value specified, the parameter value.

Click on any underlined configuration parameters or section to navigate to the related article.

NOTE: Where appropriate, some parameters have been combined into one article.

Forecast

Forecast - Sales history
Forecast - Forecast
Forecast - Seasonal group forecasting
- Seasonal group forecasting
Forecast - Risk defaults
Forecast - Risk limits
Forecast - Disaggregation
- Weight the forecast using the last X months of sales history
- Weight by the sales history of the product if it has at least X months of history at the region
- Otherwise weight by the combined sales history of similar products based on this group
Forecast - Regenerate forecasts
- Generate new forecasts when the next batch runs

Policy

Policy - Safety Stock
Policy - Stocked items
- Plan to hold at least one unit of all stocked items with a non-zero forecast
Policy - Manufacture Orders
- Raw materials are allocated to manufacture orders at the start of the job
Policy - Lead Time
- Source for item Lead Times
Policy - Dashboard
- Break the dashboard down by
- Benchmark start date
Policy - Projecting back orders
- Sales forecast
- BOM forecast
- Distribution forecast

Import/Export

Import - Import options
Import - Open transactions
- Purchase orders
- Sales orders
- Transactions
Import - Units of measure
- Unit of measure for product volume
- Unit of measure for product volume in HTML
- Unit of measure for product weight
- Unit of measure for product weight in HTML
Import - Your company’s industry
- Select the industry that best describes your business
Import - Default currency
- Default currency used by your business
Import - Display options
- Display data in ‘title case’
Import - Default language
- Default language used by your business

Supplier

Supplier - Risk defaults
- Default risk (%)
- Default offset
Supplier - Risk limits
Supplier - Order schedule
- Allow editing of Lead Times in the order schedule
Supplier - Calculation
- When computing lead times and safety stock, ignore completed purchase orders receipted more than X months ago
- Also ignore orders with measured lead times greater than X days

Supersessions

Supersessions - Supersession options
- Consolidate stock information
- Consolidate sales information

Orders

Orders - Archive orders
- Automatically archive saved orders more than
Orders - Projected orders
- How long to wait for existing orders to arrive before ordering more. Use X days instead of the replenishment cycle
- Demand beyond the projected horizon will be estimated using an average of the last X months of projected demand
Orders - Adding to orders
- Allow obsolete items
- Allow items from other suppliers

History

History - Event correction
- Enable this feature

Access

Access - Two-factor authentication
- Enable two-factor authentication for all users
Access - Session timeout
- Duration before timeout
Access - Access
- Disallow login for NETSTOCK personnel