Demand Forecasting
When creating a demand forecast, you’ll need to create a new forecast record, give the record a name, enter the number of days for fence 1 and fence 2, select a bucket size and select a system.
The fences controls what demand is used when MRP is run.
Only sales order demand will be used by MRP from today’s date up to fence 1. Between fence 1 and fence 2 MRP will look at sales order demand or demand forecast demand, whichever is the greater. After fence 2 MRP will only look at demand forecast demand.
The bucket size controls when demand will be grouped together. The options are Day, Week or Month. For example, if you had demand on the 1st of a month and the 12th of a month, and the bucket was set to Month. These two demand quantities would be proposed for the first of the month. Change the bucket to Week and you would get the demand on the 12th being proposed for the start of a later week.
Demand Forecasting Detail
Once the forecast is created you can add the individual items. You enter, a product, a site, a quantity and a date and an optional customer account
Other Options
Demand forecasts can also be exported and imported if you prefer to manipulate the data in Excel.
There is also a Calculate action where you can select a product, a start date and end date for the usage history range to look at, a forecast start date, a percentage uplift, a customer account and a site. The demand forecast value can then be calculated from the usage history in the date range, plus the uplift percentage.
MRP
You can add a forecast for use in MRP by including it in the Agent Job.