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Manufacturing

Forecasts

Updated in 5.20.70

A forecast is the demand expected for an item in a week or a month, typed or made from past sales. Material planning plans what is left of it after the sales orders and the master schedule due inside its period have used it up.

Where

Manufacturing › Forecasts

Who

«Read the material plan» reads them; «Keep the master schedule, forecasts and reorder rules» adds, makes from past sales, changes and archives them.

Read the forecasts

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Each forecast says the Item, its Period (a week from Monday to Sunday, or a month), the Quantity and where it comes From: Typed or Past sales.
The forecasts of the workshop

Type a forecast

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Press New forecast. Choose the Item, a Period and a day of it, and the Quantity; the period is the whole week or month that holds the day.
A new forecast

Make them from past sales

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Press From past sales. Choose the items, a month or a week, how many periods and the first one.
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Each period is the quantity invoiced in the months before the first period (3 by default, Setup › Settings › Manufacturing), spread over the period's days; an item counted in pieces is forecast in whole pieces. A period already forecast is kept as it is.
Forecasts made from past sales
A forecast of 90 chairs in December with 24 chairs ordered and 30 scheduled in December plans 36 more, not 90.
Nothing is deleted: Archive takes a forecast out of the planning, Restore brings it back.

Questions

Where is “Forecasts” in Zyntra OS?

Manufacturing › Forecasts

Who can use “Forecasts”?

«Read the material plan» reads them; «Keep the master schedule, forecasts and reorder rules» adds, makes from past sales, changes and archives them.