Recommendations

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What you will learn :

Pelico looks at your plan and points out actions worth considering. It does not act on them.

💡Every recommendation is an option, not an instruction. Nothing changes until you decide, and Pelico never creates material you do not have. Reallocating a part moves it between orders, it does not add any.

If you want to test a set of changes together before committing to them, that is what Simulations are for.

When an order cannot start as planned, Pelico calculates the next date when it could, based on when its parts will be available.

You see this as the Suggested Start Date column in the Work Order Book.

This is a recommendation about timing, not about material. It tells you when material and upstream work would allow a start, and it does not check your capacity. See Dates and Delays for how to read it and why it can look impossible.

Pelico compares what your production actually needs against what your suppliers are planning to deliver, then suggests moving a purchase order — or dropping it.

You find these as directional arrow indicators on the supply events themselves, mainly in the Supply Purchase Order Book.

⚠️ These are not the lightbulb. Pull-in, push-out and cancel are about rescheduling supply you have already ordered. The 💡 lightbulb is a separate feature about using stock you already own, see the next section. Two different questions, two different indicators.

Suggestions come in two parallel sets, answering different horizons. Without safety stock targets short-term execution: what you need to serve the demand in front of you. With safety stock targets mid-term inventory: what you need to serve demand and keep your buffer intact.

Because the two run in parallel, a single event can carry up to three suggestions at once. That is expected, not a duplicate. Suggestions never point to a date in the past.

An Opportunity is stock Pelico has spotted that could help an order, but that it will not use on its own. All of them are grouped under the 💡 lightbulb icon in the Line of Balance and on the Missing Parts page.

Selecting the lightbulb opens a tooltip listing every opportunity found, each with its own sub-icon and quantity.

💡 All six share the same lightbulb. They do not each get their own icon on the row. Open the tooltip and read the sub-icons: rotables show a recycle symbol, stock transfers an exchange-box symbol, each with its quantity.

Rotables are the one exception — they can also appear as a standalone tag on their own, outside the lightbulb.

⚠️ None of this stock is counted in coverage or in the stock projection. An order can stay blocked while an alternate part sits in stock, and that is not an error. Pelico is showing you an option, and using it stays your decision. See Stock and Material.

Each opportunity type can be filtered on its own, so you can look at one kind at a time rather than everything at once.

Opportunities are not limited to Production Control. Planning and Supply use the same idea to point out where reducing inventory may be possible.

One indicator sits near opportunities and is easy to mistake for one. It is information, not a suggested action.

It is not suggesting that you do anything. It explains why a figure looks the way it does.

💡Excluded storage is both. As a general concept it explains why some stock is left out of Pelico's calculations. But when that excluded stock could cover a need you have, it also appears in the lightbulb as an opportunity.