# Concepts This section explains the key ideas behind Flowlity's supply chain planning platform. Each concept appears in several modules and settings pages — understanding them here will help you work more effectively everywhere in the application. ### Filtering and navigation * [**Views and filtering**](/concepts/views-and-filtering.md) — Saved filter configurations, custom views, and how they connect to automations. ### Demand and forecasting * [**Demand forecasting explained**](/concepts/demand-forecasting.md) — How Flowlity's probabilistic forecasting works, confidence intervals, and forecast accuracy. * [**Forecast events and demand adjustments**](/concepts/forecast-events.md) — Events lifecycle, anomaly detection, and how the Demand Anomaly Agent interacts with your data. * [**Product similarities**](/concepts/product-similarities.md) — Link related products to share demand history, manage replacements, and improve forecasts for new or sparse items. ### Inventory and supply * [**Inventory strategies**](/concepts/inventory-strategies.md) — MTS Flowlity AI, My min, Reorder point, Reorder point + AI, and MTO — when to use each. * [**Buffer policies and safety stock**](/concepts/buffer-policies.md) — Service levels, the Flowlity Min/Max corridor, and default vs product-level overrides. * [**Supplier constraints and order management**](/concepts/supplier-constraints.md) — Lead time, MOQ, order multiple, closures, and how they shape order generation. ### Monitoring and collaboration * [**Alerts**](/concepts/alerts.md) — Alert types, where they surface, and how to act on them. * [**KPIs**](/concepts/kpis.md) — Add KPI columns to the product list to sort, filter, and monitor your portfolio. * [**Metrics glossary**](/concepts/metrics-glossary.md) — Definitions and interpretation guidance for every metric in Flowlity. * [**Comments**](/concepts/comments.md) — The shared comment panel for cross-module collaboration on a product. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.flowlity.com/concepts.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.