Consumption within a Forecast Set
Consumption for an item and its corresponding sales order demand only occurs once within a forecast set. For example:
Forecast Set #1 contains Forecast #1 and Forecast #2. The same item, Item A, belongs to both forecasts within the set. Some possible scenarios and how consumption would work are:
- If the sales order quantity is less than the forecast quantity of each forecast, only one of the forecasts for Item A is consumed.
- If one of the two forecasts for Item A were on the same day as the sales order line schedule date, that forecast would be consumed first.
- If the forecast for Item A is for the same day in both forecasts, the forecasts are consumed in alphanumeric order by forecast name.
For example, if each forecast for Item A is for a quantity of 100 and you place sales order demand for 20, the consumption process would decrement only Forecast #1 to 80. However, if the sales order quantity is for 120, Forecast #1 is decremented from 100 to zero and Forecast #2 is decremented from 100 to 80.
See Also
Consumption across Forecast Sets
