| # Forecast from Customer (cpvmi0107m000) Use this session to enter the forecast data received from your customer. Electronic messaging is the recommended method to exchange forecast and confirmed-supply data. If electronic messaging is not available, you can resort to this session to enter data received by fax or other methods. Note After you set a revision of the forecast to Accepted, you can no longer change that forecast record. The possibility to change forecast data is intended only to correct data-entry errors. If you make other changes, you may cause deviations between your version of the data and the customer's version. The data you enter must be in accordance with the applicable terms and conditions agreement. 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. 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 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. Accepted If this check box is selected, you accepted the forecast. The planning process only uses the forecast that has been accepted. After the forecast has been accepted for a particular revision, you can no longer change the forecast record for that revision. Note The Automatic Accept Forecast field in the EP Parameters (cprpd0100m000) session does not affect the records you entered in this session. You must accept this forecast manually. Start Date The date this forecast period starts. Total Forecast The sum of the confirmed part and the unconfirmed part of the forecast. Confirmed Forecast The confirmed part of the forecast. 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. Specification If this check box is selected, a specification is present. To display or enter the specification, in the menu, click Specification. Allocated to Reference The supply that can fill this demand must have been allocated or demand pegged to this reference code. LN uses this characteristic to find a matching supply for this demand. LN uses the Allocated to Reference field to record an internal reference. You can use a reference code to keep a collection of parts linked together, even if they follow different routings, for example, if some of the parts are transported to a subcontractor to be returned later. If you enter a value here, you must also have communicated this reference with the customer. Related topics Demand pegging overview Allocated to BP The supply that can fill this demand must have been allocated or demand pegged to this sold-to business partner. Related topics Demand pegging overview Use Unallocated Inventory If this check box is selected, this forecast demand can be filled by unallocated inventory or unpegged supply orders. LN first uses allocated inventory and then unallocated inventory. If this check box is cleared, only properly allocated inventory can be used. 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. Reference from Message If this check box is selected, you receive the reference code by electronic messaging. Allocation and Hard Pegging Type The type of allocation or demand pegged, which determines the specification attributes used for demand and supply matching. Allowed values Allocation and Hard Pegging Type |