Forecast Distribution Example

The forecast demand can be distributed across the days of the specified period by different methods for planning purposes.

Example

The the demand forecast for the item master plan:

	Week 11	Week 12
Demand Forecast	100	100

The corresponding day capacities are:

Week 11	Capacity	Week 12	Capacity
March 14	0	March 21	0
March 15	8h	March 22	0
March 16	16h	March 23	24h
March 17	8h	March 24	24h
March 18	16h	March 25	24h
March 19	8h	March 26	0
March 20	0	March 27	0

Based on the option you specified in the Forecast Distribution field of the Planning Parameters (cprpd0100m000) session, one of these distributions is generated:

Distributed over days of the period

Date	Demand
March 15	14
March 16	29
March 17	14
March 18	29
March 19	17
March 23	67
March 24	66
March 25	67

Note

The rounding differences are spread within the specified period.

Distributed over the last day of a period

Date	Demand
March 20	100
March 27	200