Transferring Updated Sales Budget

This chapter explains how to transfer an Updated Sales Budget/Sales Forecast to forecasts per item in M3 Business Engine. The Updated Sales Budget/Sales Forecast is exported to M3 BE from M3 DMP in the process Collaborative Demand Planning.

Outcome

An Updated Sales Budget/Sales Forecast is transferred to forecasts per item in the Forecasting module or in the Master Demand Schedule (MDS).

The forecasts per item are treated as manually entered forecasts and are used in Material Requirements Planning/Distribution Requirements Planning (MRP/DRP) in M3 BE.

All the values in the Updated Sales Budget/Sales Forecast are disaggregated to forecasts per item. The forecast and/or MDS version in the forecast system is updated with these values.

Note: The Dataset must include Item Number, Forecast Family or Planning Entity as a key for the update to succeed.

Before Starting

The Updated Sales Budget/ Sales Forecast must be exported from M3 DMP to M3 BE.

Activity Description

Transfer Sales Budget/Sales Forecast to Item Forecast
In this activity an Updated Sales Budget/Sales Forecast is transferred to forecasts per item in the Forecasting module or in the Master Demand Schedule. For Sales Budget, this is performed in program Manual Forecast. Update fr Sales Budget (FCS425). The activity is described further in the procedure Transfer Sales Budget to Item Forecast in the M3 BE Companion.

Note: See Transfer Sales Budget to Item Forecast in M3 BE Companion.