Maintaining Material Forecasts

  1. Open the Material Forecasts form.
  2. Turn off Filter-in-Place.
  3. Select the item for which you want to change forecast requirements. The unit of measure and description are displayed.
  4. Optionally, select a warehouse and customer for which you want to define the forecast.
  5. In the Forecast Date field, select the due date for the forecast.
  6. In the Original Quantity field, specify the amount of material shipped or posted within the date range, based on the Forecast Look Ahead and Forecast Look Behind values for the selected item, warehouse, and customer.
  7. Save the changes.

    The Outstanding Requirement amount is updated to the Original Quantity amount.

The Posted Quantity field shows the sum of transactions posted based on the demand transaction types, item, warehouse, and customer.

The Current Demand Quantity field shows the sum of demand quantity from the fs_sro demand table.