Forecast Cycle Processes

Here’s the sequence of demand forecast cycle processes:

1. The customer participant uploads new or updated order forecast demand to the Demand Collaboration application.
2. The enterprise participant reviews the uploaded order forecast demand.
3. An enterprise-scheduled process sends customer demand to the demand management application.
4. An enterprise demand planner factors the customer demand into the demand planning decision process.
5. An enterprise-scheduled process sends the demand plan response to the customer participant.
6. The customer participant reviews the demand plan response.
7. An enterprise-scheduled process expires the cycle data.

Expiration Process for a Forecast Cycle

The Expire Current Collaboration Cycle process moves current cycle data into the previous cycle and resets collaboration analytics, indicating a new cycle for forecast data.