Enable or disable forecast on a production order

 

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Enable or disable forecast

 

Enable or disable forecast on a production order can be done with the Enable/Disable Forecast button on the production order.
This button can be authorized via the Authorization Overview and is available under the following conditions:

Enable forecast

• The production order is not linked to a sales order.
• No quantities have been reported as completed for an assembly or a sub-assembly.
• There is no post-calculation (material, operation or outsourcing).
• No hours have been booked on the production order.

Disable forecast

• The production order is not linked to a sales order.

If you want to switch a forecast production order to a non-forecast production order, you can do this by switching the corresponding sales order to a non-forecast sales order via the Forecast List.

 

These adjustments have been made

 

Administration Settings

The administration setting 'Inherit Forecast to Underlying Processes' applies to production order materials that are produced in a new production order.

Inherit Forecast to Underlying Processes: no

• Produce material from forecast production order into a new production order » The new production order will not become a forecast production order.
• Enable/disable forecast in a production order » Forecast is not switched on or off on underlying production orders.

Inherit Forecast to Underlying Processes: yes

• Produce material from forecast production order into a new production order » The new production order also becomes a forecast production order.
• Enable/disable forecast in a production order » The forecast is also switched on or off on underlying production orders. Please note that a forecast is only switched on or off on underlying production orders if they are linked one-on-one to the parent production order.

 

Please note! Initially, the setting 'Inherit Forecast to Underlying Processes' is disabled. Furthermore, this setting does not apply to the production of forecast sales order lines. This will always be a forecast production order.

 

 

Administration Settings Production Order » General » Forecast

 

 

Production List

In the Production List, the search query 'Forecast' (with the options: 'All', 'Forecast' and 'Excl. forecast') has been added. This search query gives the following results per option:

No search

• Materials from non-forecast production orders
• Sales order lines of non-forecast sales order orders
• Sales order lines of forecast sales orders

Forecast = Excl. forecast

• Materials from non-forecast production orders
• Sales order lines of non-forecast sales order orders

Forecast = Forecast

• Materials from forecast production orders
• Sales order lines of forecast sales orders

Forecast = All

• Materials from non-forecast production orders
• Materials from forecast production orders
• Sales order lines of non-forecast sales order orders
• Sales order lines of forecast sales order orders

 

Please note! If both forecasts and non-forecasts are selected in the Production List, these lines will be collected into different production orders (with and without forecast) under 'Add » According to Standard Collection Lines'.

 

 

Purchase List

In the Purchase list, the search query 'Forecast' (with the options: 'All', 'Forecast' and 'Excl. forecast') has been added. This search query gives the following results per option:

No search

• Materials from non-forecast production orders
• Sales order lines of non-forecast sales order orders

Forecast = Excl. forecast

• Materials from non-forecast production orders
• Sales order lines of non-forecast sales order orders

Forecast = Forecast

• Materials from forecast production orders

Forecast = All

• Materials from non-forecast production orders
• Materials from forecast production orders
• Sales order lines of non-forecast sales order orders

 

Please note! This now also makes it possible to purchase materials from forecast production orders. These purchase order lines can be ordered and received. However, the received material lines are not issued, because a forecast production order may not contain a post-calculation. If Forecast is later deployed on the production order, the received material lines can still be issued via the Issue or Picklist action list. Forecast sales order lines cannot be purchased.

 

 

Planning
If a forecast production order is planned, changing the Planning Date field on the production order sub-assembly will also automatically replan the order.

 

Remove link between a forecast sales order and a forecast production order
Before version 86, the property 'Forecast' was switched off on the production order when you removed the link between production and sales. From version 86 onwards, the production order retains the property 'Forecast'.