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Master Scheduling/MRP automatically consumes forecasts for configurations, models, product families, option classes, and options when you place sales order demand for configurations.
Forecast consumption for product families behaves the same as forecast consumption for models. A sales order for a family member will consume forecasts for the member item as well as forecasts for the entire family.
Attention: Under normal circumstances, no sales order demand is placed for mandatory components. You can generate derived sales order demand for selected mandatory components, since forecast consumption generates derived sales order demand for all items where you have set Forecast Control to Consume or Consume and derive. This lets you define and maintain forecasts for key mandatory components as well as models, option classes, and options.
The following table shows how forecast consumption consumes the exploded forecast for 100 Laptop Computers when a customer places a sales order for 10 Laptop Computers with 486 processors, VGA1 monitors, and DOS operating system. Notice that forecast consumption generates and consumes derived sales order demand for each mandatory component where you have set Forecast Control to Consume or Consume and derive.
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