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Release Notes - New Features included in Release 2.4.0
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4.2.6 Demand Management (DEMD)
4.2.6.1 Forecast Definition and Consumption Improvements (SR3937)
TROPOS has been enhanced to allow greater flexibility in the definition and consumption of
forecasts and their resulting impact on the production schedule.
In previous releases the TROPOS Forecasting logic automatically took account of the customer
delivery times, warehouse transfer times and allocation horizons and so always treated a forecast as
a customer delivery forecast if customer details were entered. If a business maintained a production
forecast it was forced to leave these fields blank to ensure that the forecast logic operated correctly,
and thus valuable information was not entered on the system.
The new functionality allows these items to be selectively included or excluded and so means that
the information can be held on the system but can be used, or not, depending on the type of forecast
being entered.
New management parameters have been made available to control whether the forecast entered
reflects the customer delivery date, the despatch date or the production completion date. In addition
to this, the use of the Sales ‘Days to Allocate’ field for inclusion in the forecast logic has been
removed and a new ‘Despatch Buffer’ field has been provided for use in the forecasting
calculations. This enables sales reporting to be managed independently from the forecast definition
and consumption logic.
To enable the new functionality two new fields have been defined on the FCMG transaction. See
help text for details.
Manual Set-Up Procedures
If the ‘Despatch Buffer Days’ is changed and the ‘O’ line is automatically maintained (FSAM
Orders Drive MS = ‘N’) then SLDC (Sales Consolidation) must be run for the item(s) affected to
recalculate the ‘O’ Line. This must be followed by MSDC (Demand Consolidation) to restate the
TPS based on the new ‘O’ line if ‘O’ line is consolidated, and to take account of the new despatch
buffer if ‘F’ line is consolidated into the TPS.
If ‘Use Customer/Warehouse Buffers’ is changed, FCDC (Forecast Consolidation) must be run for
the item(s) affected to recalculate the ‘F’ (and ‘C’) lines. Followed by SLDC (Sales Consolidation)
to recalculate the ‘O’ line, followed by MSDC (Demand Consolidation) to restate the TPS based on
the new ‘O’ line if ‘O’ line is consolidated, and to take account of the new ‘F’ line if ‘F’ line is
consolidated into the TPS.
4.2.7 Scheduling (SCHD)
4.2.7.1 Exclude MPS from Schedule (SR3993)
It is now possible to raise a plant schedule that excludes production orders. Such a schedule only
contains TPS, regardless of whether production orders exist within the schedule freeze.
It is suitable for environments where production that falls within the freeze is truly contained within
that freeze period, not impacting resource availability beyond the freeze. For example, a weekly
schedule where all demand is scheduled for the next week, commencing from the start of next
week. For such a schedule, production for the current week is frozen and completes at the end of
this week, having been set by the previous week’s schedule. When planning for next week,