| # Accept Forecast from Customer (cpvmi0206m000) Use this session to accept the forecast data you received from your customer. 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. 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. The agreement with the sold-to business partner can include the following: Default price and discount agreements Sales order defaults Delivery terms The related ship-to and invoice-to business partner Planner The planner responsible for planning this plan item. You define a plan item's planner in the Planner field in the Items - Planning (cprpd1100m000) session. 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. Accept Forecast changes in Frozen Zone If this check box is selected, the session also accepts the forecast if the forecast contains changes with earlier forecasts in the immediate future that are not permitted according to the terms and conditions agreement. The reference date for the frozen zones is the date you received the forecast. Related topics Forecast frozen zones Print Accepted Forecast If this check box is selected, the session prints a report of revisions with accepted forecast. Print Errors If this check box is selected, the session prints an error report. Accept Accepts the selected forecast data. |