Defining Independent Demand for Products

Access the Product Volumes by Family form.

Volume % (volume percent)

Select the product and complete this field if you want to assign a volume percentage to any product in a product family. If the percentages that you enter for the products in a product family add up to less than 100 percent, the system issues an error message.

Additional Item Factors

To assign individual product volumes without assigning percentages by product family, select the product for which you want to define independent demand and click this button to populate the grid in the Define Item Volume, Assign Product Synchronization, and Explode BOM region of the form. You can now edit the product volumes.

Independent Demand

This field displays by default the independent demand calculated like this:

Volume % for the Parent Item × Volume for the Mixed Model Family of that Parent Item.

You can override this value. If you change this value, the system recalculates the values in the Volume %, as well as the Mixed Model Family Volume, column.