Forecasting

The Planner plans forecasts as orders according to your defined order priority. When the Planner begins planning the forecast, it first allocates any available on-hand inventory and planned supplies (within the supply usage tolerance), further reducing the forecast quantity to be planned. Keep in mind that other demands, such as customer orders, will likely have priority over forecasts for using on-hand inventory and planned supplies, depending on how your order priority is set.

The Planner then generates a planned order to satisfy the remaining forecast quantity. New incoming demands can use this forecast’s supply only after the planning run is complete, when you incrementally plan them during an order promise/CTP process.

If a demand consumes a forecast, any subsequent order promise/CTP process you perform on that demand will consider this consumption of forecast supply in the calculation of the availability date.