Understanding Demand Spreading Templates
For the purpose of spreading the demand received from customers across a specified time period, you can use the Work With Demand Spreading program (P3470) to define demand spreading templates to meet the business needs. You can define a demand spreading template for a branch/plant, but you can also set it up for a combination of branch/plant and ship to or a combination of branch/plant, ship to and item.
Setting up a demand spreading template enables you to specify percentage values for the days on the template that represent how the total forecasted demand is allocated to the days of a week and, if needed, a prior week. The sum of all the percentage values you enter has to be 100. On the template you also define the date pattern that determines the actual week for spreading demand into daily buckets.