Requirements planning – related functions

Forecasts

In order to know the manufacturing and purchase situation in advance, you may have to create different kinds of forecasts. These forecasts can be seen as a form of extension of your planning horizon. This only applies if the delivery time to the customer is shorter than the lead time for the purchase and the throughput time for manufacturing.

One way of solving this situation is to use safety stock (not accrued). Another way is to use different kinds of forecasts. In MONITOR G5 you can use different forecasting models as seen below:

  • Sales forecast – The sales organization prepares an extended plan by estimating the sales per market, per seller, or something similar, and they thereby create forecasts for the parts that will be sold in the future. The forecast refers to quantity and period. For received customer orders, deductions can be made against selected customer, customer group, or district. Sales forecasts can be included in the Requirement calculation and Net requirement calculation. You register this forecast in the Register sales forecasts procedure.
  • Delivery plan (delivery plans have not yet been developed in MONITOR G5) – This forecast model means that you get delivery plans for the parts from a certain customer (customer oriented). This can be achieved when the customer has prepared an extended planning horizon in their own system, manually or via EDI. This forecast method does not include deduction.

Automatic manufacturing order when registering customer orders

You can automatically generate the manufacturing order when you register the customer order. This only apply for manufactured parts with the control method Order oriented. With the system setting M-order number is created you determine how the manufacturing order number should be created. Normally, the option creating the number as customer order number + position number, is selected.

Automatic purchase order when registering customer orders

You can automatically generate the purchase order when you register the customer order. This only apply for purchased parts with the control method Order oriented.