# Viewing inventory visibility You can use inventory visibility to view the inventory projections for all the ingested products and site combinations. You can change the projections view by product or location. To view the inventory visibility, perform the following procedure. 1. In the left navigation pane on the AWS Supply Chain dashboard, choose **Inventory Visibility**. ![\[Inventory Visibility\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-supply-chain/latest/userguide/images/inventory_visibility.png) 1. To know when the inventory visibility page was last updated, see **Date updated** on the top right corner of the page. The page is refreshed when you ingest data into data lake. By default, Insights are generated every 24 hours or when data is ingested into data lake. 1. Choose **Filters** to filter inventory projections based on *Products*, *Locations*, or *Inventory Risks*. Under **All Products**, you can select a group of products based on their product hierarchy, that are stored under the *product-hierarchy* data entity upto one level. Under **All Locations**, you can select a group of sites based on their regions, that are stored under the *geography* data entity upto one level. Under **Inventory Risks - Current Day Locations**, select *Excess*, *Balanced*, or *Stock Out* to view projections with specific inventory risk for the current date. 1. Select the **Pivot by** dropdown to filter the inventory by **Location** or **Product**. **Pivot by Location** – When you pivot by location, the inventory projections are grouped by location. At a high-level, for a given location, you can view the site type (for example, RDC, DC, and so on), number of products at the location, number of products that are balanced(that is, well within their safety stock range), number of products that are stocked out, and the number of products that are excess in stock. ![\[Inventory Visibility by location\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-supply-chain/latest/userguide/images/pivot_by_location.png) **Pivot by Product** – When you pivot by product, the projections are grouped by product. At a high-level, for a given product, you can view the category (that is, one level up), the total number of available products, the total number of products on order, and the total number of products currently in transit across locations. ![\[Inventory Visibility by product\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-supply-chain/latest/userguide/images/pivot_by_product.png) # Understanding inventory projections This section explains how to read the inventory projections. ![\[Inventory projections\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-supply-chain/latest/userguide/images/inventory_projections.png) + What is **On Hand** and **Safety stock?** – Displays the on-hand inventory value from the latest snapshot for both past dates and current date. This information is extracted from the *inv\$1level* data entity. When there are multiple records with different on-hand values for the same snapshot date, Insights will select the latest snapshot record for processing. The safety stock is the range specified in the inventory policy. + **How is demand calculated?** – Insights gathers data from the forecast, outbound sales orders, and the transfers orders (that is, products moving out of site for a given time frame) to calculate the total demand. When demand is available at a higher granularity, such as, weekly, monthly, and so on, Insights will spread the forecasted value across the given time frame. + **Prior** – When you slide the **Prior** button, you can view the inventory values for the last seven days, including any day in the past. + **How is **Projected** inventory different from **On Hand**?** – On hand inventory is the current stock in your ERP system and projected inventory is the future inventory level prediction based on factors such as previous day’s ending on hand/projected level, inbound supply (inbound order line, inbound shipment, inbound order line schedules), outbound sales (outbound order line, outbound shipment, and the demand forecast. Using projected inventory, you can plan the future inventory required to avoid stockouts or overpricing. + **How is **On Hand** different from **Projected On Hand?**** – Insights calculates projected on hand when there are no records available for the current date using the same logic used to calculate the projected inventory for future dates. + **How is quantity unit of measure (UOM) calculated and are there any defaults used?** – The unit for inventory quantity measures, such as on hand, on order, in transit, and projected inventory are displayed to distinguish between eaches, pallets, and cases. To prevent UOM mismatches and streamline calculations, Insights defaults to using the product’s base UOM specified in the product data entity for conversions. The unit conversions are derived from *product\$1uom* and *uom\$1conversion*. For more information on the data entities, see [Insights](entities-insights.md). You can also set the default UOM by adjusting the default configuration. For more information on how to change the default configuration, see [Get support for AWS Supply Chain](admin-support-ug.md). + **Are inventory projections and risks generated for products that are not in stock?** – Adjust the inventory policy safety stock range to zero for products that are not in stock. This adjustment will prompt Insights to categorize such product-site combinations as products not in stock. Similarly, you will be alerted to excess stock risks when stock is held at a location. Insights also offers recommendations to move excess stock out and receive stock when there is a stock out. **Note** This feature is only available in US East (N. Virginia). + **How does Insights handle unallocated demand?** – When *outbound\$1shipment* information is unavailable, Insights will allocate demand from *outbound\$1order\$1line* to either the promised delivery date or the requested delivery date. When *outbound\$1shipment* information is available, Insights will distribute the total demand quantity across ship dates. Any unallocated demand in a day and up to six months are carry forwarded. When there is a cancellation, Insights will stop carrying forward the demand. **Note** This feature is only available in US East (N. Virginia).