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Contents
List of Figures
Title and Copyright Information
Preface
Audience
Documentation Accessibility
Related Documents
Conventions
1
Overview to Forecasting
1.1
System Integration
1.2
Features
1.2.1
Forecasting Levels and Methods
1.2.2
Demand Patterns
1.2.3
Forecast Accuracy
1.3
Forecast Considerations
1.4
Forecasting Process
1.5
Major Tables
1.6
Supporting Tables
1.7
Menu Overview
1.7.1
Fast Path Commands
Part I Detail Forecasts
2
Overview to Detail Forecasts
2.1
Objectives
2.2
About Detail Forecasts
3
Setting Up Detail Forecasts
3.1
Setting Up Forecasting Supply and Demand Inclusion Rules
3.1.1
Processing Options
3.2
Setting Up Forecasting Fiscal Date Patterns
3.2.1
What You Should Know About
3.2.2
To set up forecasting fiscal date patterns
3.3
Setting Up the 52 Period Date Pattern
3.4
Setting Up Forecast Types
4
Work with Sales Order History
4.1
Copying Sales Order History
4.1.1
Before You Begin
4.1.2
Processing Options
4.2
Reviewing and Revising Sales Order History
4.2.1
Example: Reviewing and Revising Sales Order History
5
Work with Detail Forecasts
5.1
Creating Detail Forecasts
5.1.1
Processing Options
5.2
Reviewing Detail Forecasts
5.2.1
Processing Options
5.3
Revising Detail Forecasts
5.3.1
Processing Options
Part II Summary Forecasts
6
Overview to Summary Forecasts
6.1
Objectives
6.2
About Summary Forecasts
6.2.1
Comparing Summaries of Detail and Summary Forecasts
6.2.2
Example: Company Hierarchy
7
Set Up Summary Forecasts
7.1
Defining Distribution Hierarchies
7.1.1
Example: Distribution Hierarchy for Company 100
7.1.2
Before You Begin
7.1.3
Processing Options
7.2
Revising Address Book Records
7.2.1
Before You Begin
7.3
Reviewing Business Unit Data
7.3.1
Before You Begin
7.3.2
What You Should Know About
7.4
Reviewing Item Branch Records
8
Generate Summaries of Detail Forecasts
8.1
Generating Summaries of Detail Forecasts
8.1.1
Before You Begin
8.1.2
What You Should Know About
8.1.3
Processing Options
9
Work with Summaries of Forecasts
9.1
Reviewing a Summary Forecast
9.2
Revising a Summary Forecast
9.2.1
Processing Options
9.3
Revising Summary Forecasts Using Force Changes
9.3.1
Example: Using Force Changes
9.3.2
Before You Begin
9.3.3
What You Should Know About
9.3.4
Processing Options
Part III Aggregate Planning Forecasts
10
Overview to Aggregate Planning Forecasts
10.1
Objectives
10.2
About Aggregate Planning Forecasts
11
Understand Summary Forecasts
11.1
About Summary Forecasts
11.1.1
Comparing Summaries of Detail and Summary Forecasts
12
Work with Summary Sales Order History
12.1
Copying Summary Sales Order History
12.1.1
Before You Begin
12.1.2
Processing Options
12.2
Reviewing and Revising Sales Order History
12.2.1
Before You Begin
12.2.2
Processing Options
13
Generate Summary Forecasts
13.1
Generating Summary Forecasts
13.1.1
Before You Begin
13.1.2
Processing Options
14
Understand Planning Bill Forecasts
14.1
About Planning Bill Forecasts
14.1.1
Example: Pseudo Parent Item
14.2
Exploding the Forecast to the Item Level
14.2.1
Example: Exploding the Forecast
15
Set Up a Planning Bill
15.1
Setting Up Item Master Information
15.1.1
Processing Options
15.2
Entering Planning Bills
15.2.1
Processing Options
16
Generate Planning Bill Forecasts
16.1
Generating Planning Bill Forecasts
16.1.1
Before You Begin
16.1.2
Processing Options
Part IV Processing Options
17
Detail Forecasts Processing Options
17.1
Supply/Demand Inclusion Rules (P34004)
17.2
Extract Sales Order History (P3465)
17.3
Forecast Generation (P34650)
17.4
Forecast Review (P34201)
17.5
Forecast Revisions (P3460)
18
Summary Forecasts Processing Options
18.1
Summary Constants (P4091)
18.2
Forecast Generation (P34650)
18.3
Forecast Summary (P34600)
18.4
Forecast Summary Inquiry (P34200)
18.5
Forecast Forcing (P34610)
19
Aggregate Planning Forecasts Processing Options
19.1
Extract Sales Order History (P3465)
19.2
Forecast Summary Inquiry (P34200)
19.3
Summary Forecast Generation (P34640)
19.4
Item Master Revisions (P4101)
19.5
Bill of Material Revisions (P3002)
19.6
Master Planning Schedule - Plant Maintenance (P3482)
A
Forecast Calculation Examples
A.1
Forecast Calculation Methods
A.2
Forecast Performance Evaluation Criteria
A.3
Method 1 - Specified Percent Over Last Year
A.3.1
Forecast Calculation
A.3.2
Simulated Forecast Calculation
A.3.3
Percent of Accuracy Calculation
A.3.4
Mean Absolute Deviation Calculation
A.4
Method 2 - Calculated Percent Over Last Year
A.4.1
Forecast Calculation
A.4.2
Simulated Forecast Calculation
A.4.3
Percent of Accuracy Calculation
A.4.4
Mean Absolute Deviation Calculation
A.5
Method 3 - Last year to This Year
A.5.1
Forecast Calculation
A.5.2
Simulated Forecast Calculation
A.5.3
Percent of Accuracy Calculation
A.5.4
Mean Absolute Deviation Calculation
A.6
Method 4 - Moving Average
A.6.1
Forecast Calculation
A.6.2
Simulated Forecast Calculation
A.6.3
Percent of Accuracy Calculation
A.6.4
Mean Absolute Deviation Calculation
A.7
Method 5 - Linear Approximation
A.7.1
Forecast Calculation
A.7.2
Simulated Forecast Calculation
A.7.3
Percent of Accuracy Calculation
A.7.4
Mean Absolute Deviation Calculation
A.8
Method 6 - Least Square Regression
A.8.1
Forecast Calculation
A.8.2
Simulated Forecast Calculation
A.8.3
Percent of Accuracy Calculation
A.8.4
Mean Absolute Deviation Calculation
A.9
Method 7 - Second Degree Approximation
A.9.1
Forecast Calculation
A.9.2
Simulated Forecast Calculation
A.9.3
Percent of Accuracy Calculation
A.9.4
Mean Absolute Deviation Calculation
A.10
Method 8 - Flexible Method
A.10.1
Forecast Calculation
A.10.2
Simulated Forecast Calculation
A.10.3
Percent of Accuracy Calculation
A.10.4
Mean Absolute Deviation Calculation
A.11
Method 9 - Weighted Moving Average
A.11.1
Forecast Calculation
A.11.2
Simulated Forecast Calculation
A.11.3
Percent of Accuracy Calculation
A.11.4
Mean Absolute Deviation Calculation
A.12
Method 10 - Linear Smoothing
A.12.1
Forecast Calculation
A.12.2
Simulated Forecast Calculation
A.12.3
Percent of Accuracy Calculation
A.12.4
Mean Absolute Deviation Calculation
A.13
Method 11 - Exponential Smoothing
A.13.1
Forecast Calculation
A.13.2
Simulated Forecast Calculation
A.13.3
Percent of Accuracy Calculation
A.13.4
Mean Absolute Deviation Calculation
A.14
Method 12 - Exponential Smoothing with Trend and Seasonality
A.14.1
Forecast Calculation
A.14.2
Forecast Calculation
A.14.3
Simulated Forecast Calculation
A.14.4
Percent of Accuracy Calculation
A.14.5
Mean Absolute Deviation Calculation
A.15
Evaluating the Forecasts
A.16
Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD)
A.16.1
Percent of Accuracy (POA)
B
Functional Servers
B.1
About Functional Servers
Index
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