Family Item

If you have a number of items of more or less the same type and you don’t want to forecast on each one of them, it’s possible to create a family item for all items of the same product type. Then you create a share for each item in your family. The share is a percentage of the total forecast for a certain item and warehouse (if you use several warehouses). When entering items to the family item, no forecast may be set for the item in question.

When you enter a forecast for your family-item in 'Manual Forecast. Enter via F/C Family' (FCS415/B), the family members will have a forecast in ‘Manual Forecast/MDS. Open’ (FCS350) according to the share entered. But remember that if you change on a family member it will accumulate up to the family item. By running 'Forecast Family. Create Historical Share' (FCS405), you can create the item share from historical data.