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define the item coverage minimum in days instead of quantity

Problem: Is there a way (configuration, add on or something else) to define the item coverage minimum in days instead of quantity? For example, if in the last 30 days I had 3000 Pcs in sales of an item, that means that my average sales is 100 Pcs per day. If I have now 400 Pcs on hand, that means I have 4 inventory days. Then if I could set the minimum inventory as, let say 6 days, that should mean for AX a shortage of 2 inventory days (200 Pcs that I need to purchase, therefore a planned order should be generated by master planning). Solution: The core of your requirement is not the Item coverage, what you need is to auto-generate the sales forecast based on historical sales data. Then you can use the standard functionality of item coverage code Period and define the period as your forecast bucket. In that case you make the sure that the item requirement will collect whatever in the sales forecast. I think it could work fine: The calculated forecast will need to be created in a