Simulation Demands
If your enterprise uses an external order management system, you can simulate and plan entire orders before they're actually created. This helps you anticipate how real orders with the same data will impact planning results in Backlog Management. These mock orders are called simulation demands or inquiry demands.
How You Create, Delete, and View Simulation Demands
You use the FBDI process to load sales order data through CSV files, in which you specify order attribute values.
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To define an order as a simulation demand, specify Yes the Inquiry Demand column of the CSV file.
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To delete a simulation demand, go back to the FBDI document, set the Delete Indicator value to No, and reload the file.
In the Backlog Analysis table, simulation demands appear together with real sales orders. To tell them apart, check if the Simulation Demand column value is Yes or No.
Considerations While Using Simulation Demands
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The Simulation Demand attribute is a demand priority attribute. So, you can create and use a demand priority rule that prioritizes simulation demands over real ones.
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Real demands and simulation demands are planned using the same planning logic. But planning results for simulation demands don't impact backlog analytics, unlike the planning results of actual sales orders.
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You can't release planning results for simulation demands.