Create Forecast Family Structure

The purpose of this procedure is to create and update forecast family structures. These are used to describe the structure of a group of products in a forecast family.

Forecasts for specific item/warehouses are obtained by exploding the forecasts for its forecast family. A forecast family can be exploded through the family structure.

Before you start

Before this procedure can be started, the following prerequisites must be met:

  • Forecast families are entered in ‘Forecast Family. Open’ (FCS400).
  • The items/warehouses included in the forecast family structure are entered.
  • A forecast method is entered for each item/warehouse.
  • When using demand history statistics to determine structure variants, demand history statistics must be created and saved for each item/warehouse included in the forecast family structure. The demand type for these statistics must also be defined in each forecast method in ‘Forecast Method. Open’ (FCS300).

Follow these steps

Follow the steps below to create and update a forecast family structure.

  1. Select ‘Forecast Family. Open’ (FCS400).

  2. Specify option 11 = Details to add or change an item/warehouse in the forecast family. ‘Forecast Family. Open Line’ (FCS410/B) is then called.

  3. Add to or change the items displayed. If necessary, specify the applicable period range. Press F3=End to return to (FCS400).

  4. In the E panel, specify or change the normalizing factor for each item/warehouse, as well as the share of the total demand for the forecast family.The total for all component item/warehouses must be 100%. The share of the total demand can be determined by calculating a percentage of historic demand. This is done in ‘Forecast Family. Create Historical Share’ (FCS405).

  5. To end press F12 = Cancel.

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