Product End-of-Life Management: Discontinue a Product or combination
Below are the three ways to discontinue a product or combination, helping you prevent overstock for end-of-life or limited-edition items.
It’s also useful when you stop selling through a specific customer or channel.
First Method: Using General Information (Combination Level)
To manage this information, first click the Navigator tool in the left pane, then select and go to the General Information tab of the relevant item. Start by clicking the Edit button to modify the life cycle data.
To discontinue the item, check the Discontinued checkbox, enter the end date, and then click Save.
Note: If your forecasts are not managed at the part-number level, this method allows you to discontinue a specific combination.
Second Method: Using the Product Life Cycle Editor (Product Level)
The Product Life Cycle editor allows you to discontinue a part number and all of its combinations (e.g, part number x clients).
To do so, click on the gear icon, and select the Product life cycle menu.
Type in the Part number name or select from the dropdown. Enter the end date and click Discontinue.
Third method: Using the Data Upload Wizard
This method allows you to discontinue products or specific combinations in bulk.
More information and the upload template will be available in the article How to upload your Product Life Cycle data? (link coming soon).
Impact of Product Discontinuation on the Forecast
Initial forecast for 033-2 London :
Updated forecast for product 033-2 after discontinuation in October 2025 :
The forecast baseline and the forecast consensus are set to zero beyond the product’s end-of-life date. Therefore, even if your item contains forecast adjustments, they will no longer be considered in the consensus forecast.
Displaying or Filtering Life Cycle Information
In the Navigator, you can display Life Cycle information by editing the view settings. Similarly, you can add Life Cycle data to a report by applying the same logic in the Reports tab.
In a Navigator view, Forecast Edition or Report, you can also filter your data to display only discontinued product forecasts. Click on Add filter, select Demand Forecasting, then choose Discontinued, and set it to true. If you are only interested in active products, just select false instead.
You can also filter your data based on the discontinued date to refine your selection before or after certain dates.
Note: The Product Life Cycle module is available starting from the Core plan. If it is not visible in your account or appears greyed out, please reach out to us via the in-app messenger or by email: support@skuscience.com.