Planning Bill Forecasts

After setting up a planning bill, you can generate a planning bill forecast to help you plan configurations for end products. The MRP/MPS Requirements Planning program (R3482) reads the detail forecast for the selected parent planning bill items and explodes it to create a forecast for the planning bill components for the same time periods.

You can use a planning bill to configure a hypothetical average parent item that is not manufactured, but represents the components which are needed to satisfy demand for all the combinations of options and features that you expect to sell. For example, if the sales history indicates that 60 percent of all the bikes you sell are 10 speed bikes and 40 percent are 15 speed bikes, the planning bill includes an average parent bike that is neither a 10 speed bike nor a 15 speed bike, but a hybrid bike that is 60 percent 10 speed bike and 40 percent 15 speed bike.

Use planning bills during master scheduling or material planning. You can forecast with a planning bill to determine component demand within Master Production Schedule (MPS), Material Requirements Planning (MRP), and Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Requirements Planning system.