1. SCM (Supply Chain Management)
  2. Inventory Management
  3. Advanced Inventory Management
  4. Demand Planning
  5. Setting Up Demand Planning
  6. Time Fences
  7. Setting Time Fence Preferences

Setting Time Fence Preferences

The Time Fence preferences set the system default for item planning.

Important:

The NetSuite Supply Planning (MRP) solution replaces Time-Phased Planning and offers more features and better performance.

New customers should use the Supply Planning (MRP) solution. Existing customers should plan to move from Time-Phased Planning to MRP.

To set preferences for time fences:

  1. Go to Setup > Accounting > Inventory Management Preferences.

  2. Enter information for each of the following fields as needed:

    • Default Demand Time Fence – Enter the number of days between zero and 365. This number sets the default demand time fence and appears in the Demand Time Fence field on new item records. You can change this number when you create each item record. The default value is zero.

    • Default Planning Time Fence – Enter the number of days between zero and 365. This number sets the default demand time fence and appears in the Planning Time Fence field on new item records. You can change this number when you create each item record. The default value is zero.

  3. Click Save.

Note:

NetSuite suggests maximum values as follows: maximum for Planning Time Fence = 363, maximum for Demand Time Fence = 364. The Generate Item Supply Plan start and end dates can handle up to 364 days. If Demand Time Fence is set to 364, the last day becomes as 365 (start date + planning time fence + 1), which is over the limit. The first day that NetSuite can generate an order falls outside of the window of the supply plan start and end dates. Therefore, no order is generated.

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General Notices