How You Publish Order Forecasts

You publish order forecast for your suppliers. The suppliers can view the forecast and send their commits to you as a supplier capacity. You don't have to save the plan to the database before publishing the order forecast.

You can publish order forecast from the following pages in the Supply Planning, Demand and Supply Planning, or Planning Central work area:

• Items

• Supplies and Demands

• Manage Plans or individual plan

When you select Publish Order Forecast from the Actions menu, the planning process submits a job in Scheduled Processes. The planning process deselects all additional parameters that are available in the Publish Order Forecast job and submits the job. If you want to select various additional parameters that are available for the Publish Order Forecast scheduled process, you must submit the job manually from the Scheduled Processes work area and select your parameters.

Points to Remember

Consider the following points before you publish the order forecast:

• When you publish the order forecast from the Manage Plans page, you publish the order forecast for all the valid suppliers within the plan.

• When you're in the Items table or the Supplies and Demand table, you can publish order forecast that belongs to one Item-Organization at a time. You can't publish two rows of items with different Item-Organization combinations.

• The Publish Order Forecast job also launches the Supply Planning Collaboration Decomposition job. You don't have to run the decomposition job separately.