This chapter contains these topics:
To set up supply and demand inclusion rules
To set up fiscal date patterns
To set up a 52 period date pattern
To set up forecast types
To copy a sales order history into the Detail Forecast table
To review and revise a copied sales order history
To generate detail forecasts
To review detail forecasts
To revise detail forecasts
You use detail forecasts to project demand at the single-item level according to each item's individual history.
Forecasts are based on sales data from the Sales Order History table (F42119), which is updated regularly with sales order demand information from the Sales Order Detail table (F4211). Before you generate forecasts, you use Extract Sales Order History to copy sales order history information from the Sales Order History table into the Detail Forecast table (F3460). This table also stores the generated forecasts.
Complete the following tasks:
Set up detail forecasts
Work with sales order history
Work with detail forecasts