CUM management

CUM management allows customers to track demand fulfillment from schedule to schedule for accommodate out of order shipping and receiving. The robust CUM Management system tracks order CUMs as well as Fabrication and Material CUMs. Manual adjustments are supported as well as model year change-over. Integrated reporting tools create high visibility of ahead or behind CUM quantities. Combined with the alerting system, CUM events are tracked on the EMC as well as through automated alert notification.

Mid-Year Startup

After turning on CUMs, the first schedule sent is used to set the CUM required, the CUM required before the first requirement of the schedule, and CUM shipped quantities. Both quantities are set to match the field selected as the CUM basis in the customer characteristics.

CUM Required

This is the total quantity due to date. CUM Required is date specific, it is variable based on the current date and requirement date. Each time a schedule is sent (imported), the prior CUM Required is updated to match the field selected as the CUM basis in the customer characteristics. This quantity indicates the total quantity due before the first requirement.

If using a CUM-to-Net strategy, each requirement quantity is a CUM required for the requirement date. The net quantity for the first requirement in the schedule is calculated as the difference between the prior CUM required and the requirement quantity. Subsequent net requirements are calculated as the difference between the requirement quantity and the previous requirement quantity.

If using a Net-to-CUM strategy, each requirement quantity is a net due for the requirement date. CUM required is calculated based on the prior CUM required and each net requirement.

CUM Shipped

This can be calculated either by the application or set by the customer on each schedule based on the CUM Shipped (YTD) Owner setting in the customer characteristics.

  • If CUM Shipped Owner is set to Supplier-Internal, CUM shipped is tracked by the application based on ASNs and CUM shipped adjustments. After the initial CUM startup, the customer does not control CUM shipped. The CUM shipped quantities included on schedules are ignored.
  • If CUM Shipped Owner is set to Customer-External, CUM shipped quantities included on schedules override the application's CUM shipped. CUM shipped is tracked by the application based on ASNs and CUM shipped adjustments until the next schedule is sent (imported). During this time, the CUM shipped is overridden based on the CUM shipped on the schedule.