Understanding JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Forecast Management for Project Manufacturing
The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Forecast Management system generates demand projections that you use as input for the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne planning and scheduling systems from Oracle. The planning and scheduling systems calculate material requirements for all component levels from raw materials to complex subassemblies.
Effective management of distribution and manufacturing activities begins with understanding and anticipating market needs. Forecasting is the process of projecting past sales demand into the future.
The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Forecast Management system generates these types of forecasts:
Detail forecasts, which are based on individual items.
Summary (or aggregated) forecasts, which are based on large product groups, such as a product line.
Planning bill forecasts, which are based on groups of items in a bill of material format and reflect how an item is sold, not how an item is built.
The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Forecast Management system integrates with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Project Manufacturing to support production controlled items in detail, summary, and planning bill forecasts.
The forecast represents the demand for a production controlled item. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne system allows only one type of top-level demand for production controlled items with an associated production number at any instant in time, either a forecast or a sales order. If a production controlled item has a forecast, then the item with the same production number cannot have a sales order.