In the context of Demand Scheduling, customers might have two types of requirements, firm
and planned. Planned requirements represent demand for items that are not needed right
away and must not ship immediately, but are items for which the supplier must plan
because the customer anticipates needing the material within a specific future time
horizon.
After customers have communicated their requirements to their suppliers, typically using
EDI, the requirements are transferred from the EDI demand tables to the F40R11 table by
running the EDI Inbound Demand Edit/Update program (R47171). The resulting records in
the F40R11 table are characterized as planning or firm demand by the value in the Demand
Type field. Each record also contains a demand period indicator that specifies the
period for the demand record (daily, weekly or monthly).
Note: You can also enter firm or planned
demand into the system by using the Demand Maintenance program (P40R10). Set a
processing option to start the Create Demand Schedule program (R40R010)
automatically.You transfer planned demand values into the JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne Forecast Management system by running the Create Demand Schedule
program. Based on the schedule fence that you defined in the preferences for a
customer and item combination, the system determines whether to create a forecast
record from the demand record. If the demand record is within the time frame that is
specified by the horizon start date (the release date or the date that is provided
by the customer), the system creates a forecast record; otherwise, the data is used
for information only. After the system sends a demand detail record to the JD
Edwards EnterpriseOne Forecast Management system, the Create SO Status is set to 0
in demand detail.