Understanding Firm Demand

Firm demand requirements represent demand for material that is required for a specific future time horizon. When you create and process records for firm demand, the system uses this information to maintain the requirements, scheduling and fence information, rules, and other default information that is relevant to suppliers and customers.

For example, you can create planning schedules that enables you to retrieve plan or firm demand, and, based on fences, the system determines whether to process the data as sales orders or forecast records. You also specify how to process cartons, labels, shipments, notifications, and run reports to analyze demand information.