Swap Demand Planning helps you understand whether your inventory will cover future demand, before stockouts or overstock happen. It combines your sales history, forecasts, and inventory levels into one clear planning view.
What is Swap Demand Planning?
Demand Planning is Swap’s forecasting and planning workspace, designed to help you answer one key question: Will my stock cover demand in the coming weeks?
The Demand Planning page provides a forward-looking view of demand and inventory, enabling you to proactively manage stock and make better replenishment decisions.
It includes:
A demand planning chart (timeline view)
A detailed demand planning table
Forecasted risk visibility for the coming weeks
How the Swap Forecast is Built
Swap automatically generates forecasts for your products using an AI-powered model. The Swap forecast is built by analysing up to 2 years of your historical sales data to identify trends, seasonality, and demand patterns. Based on this, Swap produces a forward-looking demand forecast that powers both:
the Demand Planning chart
the Demand Planning table
Forecasted Risk - table for a more proactive view
This forecast gives you a strong starting point - but Swap is designed to support real merchandising workflows, not replace them.
Swap Forecast is built at the variant level, so it knows your size curvature and then aggregates the forecast to product and category levels.
Collaborating with the Forecast
You can adjust the forecast directly in Swap to reflect your own context and judgement.
This makes it easy to incorporate things like:
marketing activity
launches and promotions
supplier delays or earlier deliveries
trading performance and gut feel
Swap combines the forecast + your edits so your plan reflects what you actually expect to happen.
Forecasted Risk
Demand Planning includes forecasted risk, so you can quickly spot where your inventory plan may be heading:
stockouts
low cover warnings
overstock situations
Risk is calculated based on forecasted demand and your stock cover thresholds, and visualised directly in the chart.
Risk levels
Healthy (no risk shown)
Warning (shown in orange)
Stockout (shown in red)
This helps you see problems early, before they impact sales.
Demand Planning Chart & Adjustments
The Demand Planning chart gives you a single timeline view of your sales, forecasts, and inventory position.
What the chart shows
By default, the chart displays:
Past 4 weeks of sales history
The current week
The next 26 weeks of forecasted demand and inventory
If you want a longer view on your forecast, please contact us
How to use the chart
The chart is designed for fast decision-making:
Hover over any week to view detailed data
Toggle legends to focus on specific data points
Click a week to open a side panel with deeper insights and breakdowns
Filtering your view
You can filter the chart by:
Product
Variant (SKU)
Category
This allows you to zoom out for a full-range view, or zoom in to understand risk at a product or SKU level.
Demand Planning Table
The Demand Planning table gives you the same forecast and inventory view as the chart, but in a structured weekly format.
It helps you review and validate:
forecasted sales units
forecasted inventory levels
inbound stock impact (if connected)
risk levels over time
The table is especially useful for comparing weeks side-by-side or for exporting planning data.
Demand Planning History
Demand Planning includes recent historical performance so you can compare:
What actually happened
What was forecasted
How demand is trending
Swap shows the last 4 weeks of history directly alongside your forecast, so you can quickly identify whether performance is ahead or behind plan and adjust accordingly.
Monthly updates to your forecast
As your sales evolve throughout the month, we update your forecast based on the latest sales data. This helps you keep your forecast up to date - but also know what we changed. You can download the monthly refresh file with the top changes from the button in the banner or in the version history.
