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<Session ID="/baanerp/cp/vmi/cpvmi0202m100" xml:lang="en">
   <Header>
      <Title>Send Forecast to Supplier (cpvmi0202m100)</Title>
   </Header>
   <HelpTopic>
      <AimSection>
         <Paragraph>Use this session to send the <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000456" role="glossary">forecast</Link> to the <Link href="/baanerp/tc/glossary/glossary#BuyfroBusine_tc" role="glossary">supplier</Link> that takes care of the supply planning in a <Link href="/baanerp/wh/glossary/glossary#000469" role="glossary">vendor managed inventory (VMI)</Link> setup.</Paragraph>
      </AimSection>
      <GeneralSection>
         <Paragraph>You can send the data by publishing <Link href="/baanerp/wh/glossary/glossary#000479" role="glossary">Business Object Documents (BODs)</Link> or through other means. If you send the forecast
		  to the supplier without using BODs, you must print the forecast in this
		  session. After you print or publish the forecast, you can view the sent or
		  printed forecast <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000457" role="glossary">revision</Link> in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/vmi/cpvmi0503m000" role="session">Forecast Revisions to Supplier (cpvmi0503m000)</GUIRef> session.</Paragraph>
         <Paragraph>If you publish or print the forecast using this session, ERP Enterprise records the date and
		  time in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/vmi/cpvmi0503m000#cpvmi003.sdad" role="manual">Date Sent</GUIRef> field in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/vmi/cpvmi0503m000" role="session">Forecast Revisions to Supplier (cpvmi0503m000)</GUIRef> session.</Paragraph>
      </GeneralSection>
      <RelatedTopics>
         <SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
         <RelTopic>
            <Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000470" role="manual">Supply planning by supplier</Link>
         </RelTopic>
         <RelTopic>
            <Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000490" role="manual">Forecast (VMI)</Link>
         </RelTopic>
         <RelTopic>
            <Link href="/baanerp/tc/onlinemanual/000520" role="manual">Configuring ERP Enterprise for BOD publishing</Link>
         </RelTopic>
      </RelatedTopics>
   </HelpTopic>
   <Fields>
      <FieldHelp ID="e.buy.from.bp.f" OtherIDs="e.buy.from.bp.t">
         <Header>
            <Title>Buy-from BP</Title>
         </Header>
         <FuncDesc>The business partner from whom you order goods or services;
		this usually represents a supplier's sales department. The definition includes
		the default price and discount agreements, purchase-order defaults, delivery
		terms, and the related ship-from and invoice-from business partner.</FuncDesc>
      </FieldHelp>
      <FieldHelp ID="e.planner.f" OtherIDs="e.planner.t">
         <Header>
            <Title>Planner</Title>
         </Header>
         <FuncDesc>The <Link href="/baanerp/td/glossary/glossary#000018" role="glossary">planner</Link> or range of planners for which you send the
		  forecast.</FuncDesc>
         <SimpleSection>
            <Paragraph>The <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/rpd/cprpd1100m000#cprpd100.plid" role="manual">Planner</GUIRef> field in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/rpd/cprpd1100m000" role="session">Items - Planning (cprpd1100m000)</GUIRef> session specifies which planner plans a particular
			 item.</Paragraph>
         </SimpleSection>
      </FieldHelp>
      <FieldHelp ID="e.plan.item.f" OtherIDs="e.plan.item.t">
         <Header>
            <Title>Plan Item</Title>
         </Header>
         <FuncDesc>An item with the order system <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/domains/osys#mps" role="option">Planned</GUIRef>.</FuncDesc>
         <SimpleSection>
            <Paragraph>The production, distribution, or purchase of these items is
		  planned in <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> based on the forecast or the actual demand.</Paragraph>
            <List>
               <ListIntro>You can plan these items by means of the following:</ListIntro>
               <ListItem>Master-based planning, which is similar to master production
			 scheduling techniques.</ListItem>
               <ListItem>Order-based planning, which is similar to
			 material-requirements planning techniques.</ListItem>
               <ListItem>A combination of master-based planning and order-based
			 planning.</ListItem>
            </List>
            <List>
               <ListIntro>Plan items can be one of the following:</ListIntro>
               <ListItem>An actual manufactured or purchased item.</ListItem>
               <ListItem>A product family.</ListItem>
               <ListItem>A basic model, that is, a defined product variant of a
			 generic item.</ListItem>
            </List>
            <Paragraph>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.</Paragraph>
         </SimpleSection>
      </FieldHelp>
      <FieldHelp ID="e.send.method">
         <Header>
            <Title>Send Method</Title>
         </Header>
         <FuncDesc>The action performed by this session.</FuncDesc>
         <SimpleSection>
            <List>
               <ListItemHead>
                  <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/domains/send.method#print" role="option">Print</GUIRef>
               </ListItemHead>
               <ListItem>The data not sent, but printed in a report.</ListItem>
               <ListItemHead>
                  <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/domains/send.method#publish" role="option">Publish</GUIRef>
               </ListItemHead>
               <ListItem>The data is sent in Business Object Documents.</ListItem>
               <ListItemHead>
                  <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/domains/send.method#print.publish" role="option">Print and Publish</GUIRef>
               </ListItemHead>
               <ListItem>The data is printed in a report and sent in BODs.</ListItem>
            </List>
         </SimpleSection>
      </FieldHelp>
      <FieldHelp ID="e.print.errors">
         <Header>
            <Title>Print Errors</Title>
         </Header>
         <FuncDesc>If this check box is selected, any errors that occur are printed in a report.</FuncDesc>
      </FieldHelp>
   </Fields>
   <FormCommands>
      <CommandHelp ID="exec.cont.process">
         <Header>
            <Title>Send</Title>
         </Header>
         <FuncDesc>Starts sending or printing.</FuncDesc>
      </CommandHelp>
   </FormCommands>
</Session>