Understanding Cumulative Information for Demand Scheduling

You can use cumulative processing to communicate current and forecasted requirements for accumulated quantities of goods from the start of a blanket purchase order to a particular future date. For example, you can send and receive notifications regarding year-to-date quantities received, quantities required, and quantities shipped.

When working with cumulative records, you can perform these types of tasks:

• Track cumulative information using product or carton models.

• Increment or decrement the values for the cumulative amounts shipped.

• Calculate ahead and behind values.

• Manually add, update, or delete cumulative records.

• View cumulative history.

• Reset (roll back) cumulative records to a specified date.

You can create cumulative data automatically by using the EDI Inbound Demand Edit/Update program (R47171) or manually by using the CUM Maintenance program (P40R12). The system uses these tables to process cumulative information for demand scheduling:

• F40R12

• F40R42

• F40R12WF

• F40R20

• F40R23

• F40R24