Forecast Fundamentals
The system that forecast is loaded into for buy parts.
What is MRP?
The amount of consumption normally reviewed to create a historical forecast.
What is 365 days?
The group(s) that provides production rates before Purchasing’s review.
What is Finance and/or Manufacturing?
The placeholder ship date assigned to unscheduled sales orders.
What is 09/09/2099?
The only adjustment type that can have multiple active entries for per part, per site.
What is a Dynamic Change?
The type of parts whose forecast is generated but not loaded into forecast buckets.
What are Make Parts (VI)?
The project date used to determine how long an item has been in production.
What is the Production Release (PR) date?
The structure used to connect components to top-level products for RPD calculations.
What is the Bill of Material (BOM)?
The time before backlog demand starts being loaded.
What is two weeks?
The adjustment used when future demand should follow only sales-rate projections.
What is an RPD Override?
The field that determines whether a part is considered a buy part.
What is the Buyer Group?
The forecasting method applied to newly released products.
What is NPI Logic?
The frequency at which RPD calculations are refreshed.
What is weekly?
These two data types keep backlog from being loaded on a day based on Max production capacity.
What is loaded demand and forecast?
The adjustment commonly used to remove demand caused by a transaction error.
What is a Static Override?
The purchasing buyer group that prevents forecast from loading.
What is 6666?
The board identification structure used to preserve consumption history between PCB revisions.
What is a Basespec?
When RPD data is unavailable, the system continues using this.
What is Historical forecast?
The type of order that becomes backlog when it has open quantity and a placeholder ship date.
What is a sales order?
The maximum duration allowed for an adjustment.
What is 365 days?
The person(s) responsible for maintaining forecast adjustments and root cause of the associated parts.
What is Purchasing buyer?
The amount of buckets used for a product with a coverage group of 365-07s.
What is 86?
The data set used as input to load RPD demand at a top level.
What is Manufacturing (MFG) Grouping?
The structure referenced to generate component demand from backlog.
What is the Bill of Material (BOM)?
The override reason that requires additional information and often used by NPI.
What is ECO affected increase/decrease?