View or Enter Planned Demands
Security Note: Assuming you can view the plan, no specific security right is required to view the planned demands. To enter planned demands, you need the Allow planning maintenance security right in the Planning domain security rights group.
Activity Steps
- Open the Plan.
- Select the Planned Demand tab.
- Enter the following search criteria as required.
- Start Date—These dates must be within the range of the Plan Start Date and Plan End Date.
- End Date
- Click anywhere below the dates.
The table displays the demands per product, and a list of the planned date and planned despatch orders for the specific date period.
- To enter a planned demand:
- Right-click in the table and select Add Planned Demand from the menu.
- Update the following fields as required.
- Planned Date
- Planned Despatch Order—Name of the planned demand.
- Comments—These comments are only for reference purposes on the Planned Demand tab. The comments do not display on the Worksheet tab. The maximum length is 255 characters.
- Demand Product/Brand—Product or brand associated with the planned despatch order. Select from the products and brands defined on the Material panel of the Solution Explorer. This selection allows a planned demand to correspond to a future despatch for what-if purposes, even if the product has not been included in the plan configuration.
- Mass Required—Amount of material, in the unit of measure specified in the plan configuration, to be moved for the despatch order. This mass is updated to reflect the total amount of all material entered for the Blend Products.
- Blend Products—Breakdown of the tonnage for all products defined on the Configuration tab, based upon the allowed transformations specified for the Demand Product/Brand.
Note: The planned demand is only created and added to the plan if at least one preferred blend is specified.
- To view the planned demands in the production and demand plan, select the Worksheet tab.
