8 Generate Summaries of Detail Forecasts
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8.1 Generating Summaries of Detail Forecasts
From Material Planning Operations (G34), choose Forecasting
From Periodic Forecasting Operations (G3421), choose Summarize Detail Forecasts
Summarize Detail Forecasts generates summary forecasts, which are stored in the Summary Forecast table (F3400), based on data from the Detail Forecast table (F3460).
This program allows you to use detail data to generate summary forecasts that provide both sales amount and item quantity data. You can summarize Detail Actual Sales data or forecasted data.
The Detail Forecast table is based on both input copied from the Sales History table (F42119) using Extract Sales Order History and input generated by the Generate Detail Forecast program.
You do not need to clear the Summary Forecast table before you run this program. The program deletes any forecasts in the table for the summary code that you specify. If you enter From/Thru dates, the system only deletes those forecasts within the date range. The program adds the forecast amounts to the selected record and then to every record in the hierarchy above it.