Inheritance Rules

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Usage

Use this window to visualize and edit the inheritance rules that is valid for the part/level you are currently standing on:

Element Description
Flow The flow id that you should inherit from.
Group 1 The first selected group from the Demand Plan Server Setup this group have the highest rank. If you select this group all parts that belong to this group will inherit the profiles you set on the group.
Group 2 The first selected group from the Demand Plan Server Setup this group have the second highest rank. If you select this group all parts that belong to this group will inherit the profiles you set on the group.
Group 3 The first selected group from the Demand Plan Server Setup this group have the third highest rank. If you select this group all parts that belong to this group will inherit the profiles you set on the group.
Group 4 The first selected group from the Demand Plan Server Setup this group have the fourth highest rank. If you select this group all parts that belong to this group will inherit the profiles you set on the group.
Group 5 The first selected group from the Demand Plan Server Setup this group have the fifth highest rank. If you select this group all parts that belong to this group will inherit the profiles you set on the group.
Group 6 The first selected group from the Demand Plan Server Setup this group have the sixth highest rank. If you select this group all parts that belong to this group will inherit the profiles you set on the group.
Classification This is the classification field computed for all forecast parts and it can also be used as a source for inheritance.
Season Profile The season profile to be inherited down to the parts.
Period Profile The period profile to be inherited down to the parts.
Weekly Profile

Moveable Holiday

The weekly profile to be inherited down to the parts.

The moveable holiday to be inherited down to the parts.

A match of two or more group combinations will be selected as inheritance source before the rules that only include one of the groups. The yellow color indicates the fields that are inherited down to the parts. For details on inheritance rules see About Inheritance Rules.

Activity Diagrams

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Activities

Demand Plan Work

Add

Adds a new inheritance rule to the list, it will copy the fields from the active row.

Remove

Deletes the inheritance rule of the active row.

Refresh

Loads in the inheritance rules tree again. Can also be used if you do not want to save your changes, if you push refresh before you push save the changes you have done will be discarded.

Save

Saves your changes, and starts a inheritance process for the affected parts.

Menu Choice

Fields

This window contains:

Rows: One row for each inheritance rule defined.
Columns: One column for all group fields you have defined, and one for each profile that can be used in on the Demand Plan Server setup.