2090918 - All Demand Consumes Preceding Forecast Procedure Does not Consume Forecast From Preceding Time Buckets

The Demand Management Procedure is being maintained for the product as All Demand Consumes Preceding Forecasts. However, the demand for the product is not consumed from the preceding time bucket but from the current time bucket.

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1. Go to the Supply Planning work center.
2. Navigate to the Common Tasks and select the option Forecast Consumption Report.
3. In the Forecast Consumption Report screen enter the product to view the consumption report.

here an existing demand for the product is consumed by the forecast in the current  time bucket, now the consumed quantity under the column Consumed Forecast Quantity is available.

The Demand Management Procedure, All Demand Consumes Preceding Forecasts behaves as follows. If any available demand exists for a time frame, then system consumes and fulfils the demand from the current forecast and for the demand that is not fulfilled from the current forecast the preceding forecast is used. For example – If there is a forecast of two quantity for October and two quantity for November. A demand of three quantity is available via customer demand for November. As per the Consumption in Preceding Buckets procedure the system consumes the forecast of November first and then consumes the remaining forecast from October. Then it gets displayed as an Unconsumed Forecast Quantity of one quantity in October and zero quantity in November.

The system is working as designed.

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