Every control, column, and drawer on the demand dashboard, and where each figure — stock on hand, ingredient demand, and inbound purchase orders — comes from.
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Next week's runs are on the schedule, and the question that keeps you up is plain: will the warehouse feed them, or do you run short on rice Thursday before the pallet you ordered lands on Friday? The demand dashboard answers it product by product — start-of-day stock, what production will draw down, and what's inbound, one column per day. This page names every control, column, and drawer on it, and where each number is figured.
Kitchen+The dashboard opens on a seven-day window that starts today. A row of controls above the grid reshapes and narrows it:
What sticks and what resets
From, To, and the category and toggle filters live in the page address, so a link to the dashboard carries them. Daily/Weekly and Cases/LB are view switches only — they reset to Daily and Cases when you reload.
Each row is one product — its name over its product code — pinned to the left as the day columns scroll. The grid shows a product when the window's scheduled production needs it as an ingredient, or when stock is arriving for it and it feeds production. When nothing qualifies, the grid reads No products in the selected date range.
Every day — or week, in the weekly view — carries the same three figures for the product on that row. A week sums its days' Need and Arriving, and shows the On Hand the week opens with:
The near window runs on your production schedule. Further out, though, the schedule usually isn't built yet, so those days fall back to . Every day more than two weeks out is tinted and marked Forecast, and its Need comes from the open sales orders shipping that day instead of from a scheduled run.
Three notices can sit above the grid, each explaining why a number isn't where you'd expect it:
Two notices you want to stay quiet
Needs configuration and Zero yield only appear when a product or a recipe is set up incompletely. On a company whose products carry case weights and whose recipes carry a real yield, neither shows — and their absence is the sign the grid is counting everything.
The Picking link in any day's header opens the picking detail — a drawer that slides in from the right and breaks that one day down by department. Its header names the day; closing it returns you to the grid with your filters intact. A day with nothing scheduled reads No picking requirements for this day.
Each row is one product in one department, and its columns walk from what the day needs to what you'll actually pull:
The dashboard is read-only — it reports, it doesn't change anything — and it's gated under Production in the permission catalog by View production plans, the same permission that opens production plans. Without it, both the grid and a day's picking detail redirect to an unauthorized notice. The dashboard also needs the purchasing module switched on alongside production — the Arriving column reads from your purchase orders.