| # Confirmed Supply to Customer (cpvmi0108m000) Use this session to prepare the information about confirmed supply to be sent to your customer. Related topics Supply planning by supplier Scenario The identification of an overall planning solution. Each scenario represents one overall planning solution, and involves particular settings for the planning of items and resources. You can use scenarios to analyze and compare various planning options and to find the best planning solution. For example, you can vary demand forecasts or sourcing strategies. One of the scenarios is the actual scenario, which corresponds with the actual planning situation. You can only transfer planned orders and production plans from the actual scenario to the execution level of ERP LN. 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. 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 of the message. Date Sent Confirmed Supply The date you sent the confirmed supply to the customer. Approved If this check box is selected, this revision has been approved for sending to your customer. 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, ERP LN assumes the confirmed supply has been sent to the customer, regardless of the setting in the Send Method group box. Unit The unit of measure in which the inventory of an item is recorded, such as piece, kilogram, box of 12, or meter. The inventory unit is also used as the base unit in measure conversions, especially for conversions that concern the order unit and the price unit on a purchase order or a sales order. These conversions always use the inventory unit as the base unit. An inventory unit therefore applies to all item types, also to item types that cannot be kept in stock. Date The date when the supply must be delivered. Total Forecast The sum of the confirmed forecast and the unconfirmed forecast Confirmed Forecast The part of the total forecast which the customer definitely expects to consume. If the customer sends the forecast by period to the supplier that plans the supply, the customer can differentiate between confirmed and unconfirmed forecast. Typically, confirmed forecast of a component is derived from actual sales orders and sales schedules of end item. The user can use various methods to determine how much of the forecast is confirmed forecast. See also unconfirmed forecast. Related topics Confirmed forecast and unconfirmed forecast Unconfirmed Forecast The part of the total forecast for which the customer desires a supply in addition to the confirmed forecast. Possibly, the customer is unsure whether this quantity will be needed. The sum of the confirmed forecast and the unconfirmed forecast is the total forecast. Typically, the total forecast includes not only the demand based on actual sales orders for the customer's end products, but also forecast demand based on estimated future sales of the customer's end products. See also confirmed forecast. Related topics Confirmed forecast and unconfirmed forecast Confirmed Supply Type The type of a confirmed-supply record that determines how that supply is handled. Typical examples of confirmed supply types are: Stock Supply of type Stock is already present at the customer. Immediate Supply of type Immediate is used to bring the inventory level back to at least the agreed minimum inventory level. Planned Supply of type Planned is not to be transferred to the execution level until after a later planning run. Other confirmed supply types are To Release and Released. Related topics Confirmed supply type Supply Quantity of the item the supplier has confirmed will be delivered to the customer on the planned delivery date. Note The confirmed supply can be less than the quantity requested by the customer. Total Difference An indication of the expected inventory level. A negative value shows an anticipated inventory shortage. The Total Difference field is a cumulative value, based on the Total Forecast field and the Supply field. Confirmed Difference A relatively optimistic indication of the expected inventory level. A negative value shows an anticipated inventory shortage. In the confirmed difference, the demand is presumed to only include the . The Confirmed Difference field is a cumulative value based on the Confirmed Forecast field and the Supply field. Specification Specification If this check box is selected, a specification is present. To display the specification, in the Specific menu, click Specification. Related topics Allocation and hard pegging overview Allocated to BP The sold-to business partner to which the confirmed supply must have been allocated. ERP LN uses this characteristic to match supply and demand. Related topics Allocation and hard pegging overview Allocated-to Reference A reference code to which the confirmed supply must have been allocated. ERP LN uses this characteristic to match supply and demand. ERP LN can use this field in two ways: If the Allocated to BP field is filled, ERP LN uses the Allocated-to Reference field to record a reference code defined by a customer. If the Allocated to BP field is empty, ERP LN uses the Allocated-to Reference field to record an internal reference. If related parts follow different routings, such as if some of the parts are transported to a subcontractor to be returned later, you can use a reference code to keep the parts linked together. Related topics Allocation and hard pegging overview Reference from Message The value of the Take Reference from Message check box in the Planning Terms and Conditions (tctrm1135m000) session for the applicable terms and conditions agreement. Note After this record has been created, the value of this check box is kept unchanged, even if the terms and conditions change. Related topics Allocation and hard pegging overview Allocation and Hard Pegging Type The value of the Allocation and Hard Pegging Type field in the Allocation and Hard Pegging Terms and Conditions (tctrm1165m000) session for the applicable terms and conditions agreement. Note After this record has been created, the value of this field is kept unchanged, even if the terms and conditions change. Related topics Allocation and hard pegging overview Use Unallocated Inventory If this check box is selected, Enterprise Planning can use unallocated inventory to supply the demand. Enterprise Planning uses allocated inventory first. If there is not enough allocated inventory, Enterprise Planning also uses unallocated inventory. If this check box is cleared, Enterprise Planning can only use allocated inventory to fill the demand. Note After this record has been created, the value of this field is kept unchanged, even if the terms and conditions change. Related topics Allocation and hard pegging overview Print Confirmed Supply to Customer Prints the confirmed supply. Approve Approves the revision for sending to the sold-to business partner. Reset Approved Cancels the approval of the revision. Send Starts the Send Confirmed Supply to Customer (cpvmi0208m100) session. Add Delivery Moments No Help topic is associated with this item. Patterns Starts the Patterns (tcccp0190m000) session. Specification Displays the selected record's specification. |