Centralize Forecasting for Customer and Interplant Demands Using Planning Materials

In a typical supply chain, organizations have field locations or distribution centers that stock inventory to cater to customer demands (sales orders) and the stocks are replenished by the manufacturing locations via stock transport orders. Without an SAP planning strategy, manufacturing locations would have trouble forecasting for sales orders and stock transport orders. Organizations can enhance their SAP planning strategy by centralizing forecasting for both customer and interplant demand using planning materials.

After reading this article you will be able to:
– Centralize forecasting of non-variable components of assemble-to-order and make-to-order products to achieve better replenish lead times;
– Set up “planning with a PM” strategy with enhanced capability of PM forecast;
– Implement enhancements in your stock requirements list (MD04) and total requirements display (MD73) for accurate reporting on forecast consumption across your network; and
– Set up master data and review execution results.