| # Forecast Revisions from Customer (cpvmi0506m000) Use this session to display the revisions of the forecast you received from your customer. To view the details of a forecast revision, double-click a record. Before you can use a forecast revision in a planning run, the revision must be accepted. If the Automatic Accept Forecast check box in the EP Parameters (cprpd0100m000) session has been selected, revisions are automatically accepted upon receipt. To specify the number of past revisions LN stores, use the Number of Revisions field in the EP Parameters (cprpd0100m000) session. Related topics Supply planning by supplier To perform the supply planning for your customer - Procedure Plan Item An item with the order system Planned. The production, distribution, or purchase of these items is planned in Enterprise Planning based on the forecast or the actual demand. You can plan these items by means of the following: Master-based planning, which is similar to master production scheduling techniques. Order-based planning, which is similar to material-requirements planning techniques. A combination of master-based planning and order-based planning. Plan items can be one of the following: An actual manufactured or purchased item. A product family. A basic model, that is, a defined product variant of a generic item. A group of similar plan items or families is called a product family. The items are aggregated to give a more general plan than the one devised for individual items. A code displayed by the item code's cluster segment shows that the plan item is a clustered item that is used for distribution planning. Planner The employee or department responsible for planning the production, purchase and distribution of items. The planner takes into account the inventory levels, availability of materials, and capacities of resources, and reacts on signals such as rescheduling messages that LN generates. Sold-to BP Usually a customer's purchase department, the business partner who orders goods or services from your organization, that owns the configurations you maintain, or for whom you perform a project. Details of the agreement with the sold-to business partner can include the following: Default price and discount agreements Sales order defaults Terms of delivery The related ship-to and invoice-to business partner Revision The revision number linked to the messages that communicate demand and supply data between customer and supplier. A business partner can send multiple revised versions of messages with demand and supply data. Each revised version gets a revision number that has been incremented by one. The customer generates the revision numbers. The supplier uses the same revision to mark a corresponding message to the customer. Date Sent Forecast The date your customer sent you the forecast according to your customer. Receipt Date The date you received the forecast from your supplier. Date Sent Confirmed Supply The date you sent the confirmed supply to your customer. Forecast Accepted If this check box is selected, this revision has been accepted. Before you can use a forecast revision in a planning run, the revision must be accepted. If the Automatic Accept Forecast field in the EP Parameters (cprpd0100m000) session has been selected, revisions are automatically accepted upon receipt. To accept a range of forecasts, use the Accept Forecast from Customer (cpvmi0206m000) session. Approved If this check box is selected, you have approved the confirmed supply corresponding with this revision for sending to the customer. Before you can send confirmed supply to a customer, you must approve the confirmed supply. To approve a range of confirmed supply values, use the Approve Confirmed Supply to Customer (cpvmi0208m000) session. Sent If this check box is selected, this revision was sent to your customer by using the Send Confirmed Supply to Customer (cpvmi0208m100) session. Note After you click Send in the Send Confirmed Supply to Customer (cpvmi0208m100) session, LN assumes the confirmed supply has been sent to the customer, regardless of the setting in the Send Method group box. Text If this check box is selected, you entered a text for this revision. If you send the confirmed supply to your customer, this text is included. Related topics To use texts Notes If this check box is selected, you entered a note for this revision. This note is for internal purposes and will not be sent to the customer. Related topics To use texts View latest revisions Hides outdated revisions. View all revisions Displays all revisions. Forecast by Revision from Customer Starts the Forecast by Revision from Customer (cpvmi0506m100) session. Accept Forecast from Customer Starts the Accept Forecast from Customer (cpvmi0206m000) session. Approve Confirmed Supply to Customer Starts the Approve Confirmed Supply to Customer (cpvmi0208m000) session. Print Forecast Revisions from Customer Starts the Print Forecast Revisions from Customer (cpvmi0406m000) session. |