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Forecast Explosion

Forecast explosion is the process that explodes forecasts for planning items, models, product families and option classes to selected components on your planning, model, product family and option class bills. Forecast explosion calculates exploded forecast quantities by extending parent forecast quantities using the component usages and planning percents defined on your planning, model, and option class bills.

A product family can be exploded to dependent quantity explosion for those members that have a forecast control of Consume and derive. This explosion is based on the product family allocation percentage in relation to the existing sales order quantity. You can associate alternate bills of material to multiple forecasts for the same item. This lets you explode the same forecast using different components, usages, and planning percents.

You explode forecasts, using the Load Forecasts or Load Master Schedules forms, by choosing the Explode Forecasts option when loading a forecast into another forecast or a master schedule.

The following table shows how forecast explosion explodes a forecast for 100 Laptop computers. Notice that forecast is only exploded to items where you have set Forecast Control to Consume and derive.


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