Forecast report
This report provides a convenient way to review and enter forecast numbers. When entering forecast numbers, the numbers will be disaggregated to the planning buckets.
Field |
Description |
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Forecast |
Name of the forecast |
Item |
Forecasted item. |
Customer |
Forecasted customer. |
Location |
Forecasted location. |
Total Orders |
Quantity of orders in the time bucket, includes both open and closed orders. |
Open Orders |
Quantity of open orders in the time bucket. |
Orders Adjustment |
Manual adjustment added to the total order quantity.
This adjustment can be applicable for a) removing exceptional demand
outliers from the demand history, or b) intializing the forecast for a new
product with the demand history of a similar, existing product.
The forecast calculations add the order adjustment and the total orders
as the demand history input for the calculation.
|
Forecast Baseline |
Statistical forecast generated by the system. |
Forecast Override |
Manual adjustment of the forecast.
If a value is entered in this row, it completely replaces the baseline
forecast proposed by the system.
|
Forecast Total |
Sum of the baseline forecast and the forecast adjustment. |
Forecast Net |
Forecast quantity not yet consumed by orders. |
Forecast Consumed |
Forecast quantity already consumed by orders. |
Planned Orders |
Quantity of orders planned in this time bucket. |
Planned Net Forecast |
Quantity of net forecast planned in this time bucket. |
Order backlog |
Quantity of sales orders with a due date before the end of the bucket
that will be shipped late.
This field is cumulative across all previous buckets.
|
Forecast backlog |
Quantity of forecast that will be shipped late.
This field is cumulative across all previous buckets.
|
Backlog |
This is the sum of the order backlog and the forecast backlog. |
Related permissions |
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Can view forecast report |
Can change forecast |
