Select Unit

Explanation

Changing the unit in the Select Unit toolbar changes the unit of the forecast in the Forecast Graph and Forecast Table windows if they are active in the workspace. The available choices for unit are Standard, Inventory value, Planned Sales Price, Net Weight, Part Flow Value or Period Price.

•     Standard is the default inventory part unit,
•     Invenory Value is the forecast values in units multiplyed by the Inventory value on the inventory part.
•     Planned Sales Price is the forecast value in units multiplyed by the parts value form a cost set in costing, or anoter value fetched from IFS (can be configured)
•     Net Weight is the forecast value in untis multiplyed by the invnetory parts net weight.
•     Part Flow Value is the forecast value multiplyed with the parts flow value set on forecast part tab
•     Period Price is the forecast value multiplyed with a unique price per forecast part and period.

Note that the values Inventory Value, Planned Sales Price and Net Weight can be configured to be any value that can be connected to a Site & Part, which one to use is configured in the Demand Plan Server machine see Advance Server Settings.

When you work with aggregated forecasts at some group level, it is usually natural to choose Cost Price as the forecast unit. The exception is for homogenous groups, i.e., groups of items that all, or mostly all, have the same default inventory unit (such as parts grouped on the basis of Product Code or Product Family).

Prerequisites

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System Effects

As a result of this activity:

• The system redraws the Forecast Graph (y-axis labels) and presents recalculated figures in the Forecast Table.
• The unit of the field Sum Forecast in Detail View changes accordingly. Note that the unit for the parameters Manual Yearly and Std Manual Yearly do not change; they are always the default inventory part unit.

Window

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Related Window Descriptions

Demand Plan Client

Detail View

Procedure

Click the open button of the Unit combo box and choose Standard, Inventory value, Planned Sales Price, Net Weight, Part Flow Value or Period Price