This chapter contains these topics:
To define the distribution hierarchy
To revise address book revisions
To review branch or plant data
To review item branch locations
To copy summary sales order history into the Summary Forecast table
To review and revise summary copied sales order history
To generate summary forecasts
To explode a forecast for a pseudo parent item down to the component
An aggregate production plan is usually stated by product family in terms of a monetary value of production over the given planning horizon.
Factors considered in the aggregate planning activity include:
Sales forecasts
Inventory investment
Capital equipment utilization
Work force capacity
Skills training requirements
Corporate policies concerning customer service levels, overtime, and subcontracting
Summary forecasts aggregate sales history into a monetary value of sales by product family, by region, or in other groupings used as input to the aggregate production planning activity. Planning bill forecasts convert the output of the approved aggregate plan into a time-phased master schedule for buildable end item numbers.
Complete the following tasks:
Understand summary forecasts
Work with summary sales order history
Generate summary forecasts
Understand planning bill forecasts
Set up a planning bill
Generate planning bill forecasts