Hi All,
I've seen several posts with similar questions, but based on lack of definitive answers, I will assume that this function is not supported as I (and others) imagine it.
Sales is on an assemble-to-order basis for all level 0 products. -> this means that planning worksheets will only suggest assembly order when sales order exists, right?
If I add a demand forecast for the finished goods (sales or component), this will not suggest assembly order, because a sales order does not exist, right?
Therefore, planning will not suggest assembly/purchase orders for the components based on finished goods forecast. This would be fantastic, but it doesn't seem to trickle down like that.
But what everyone is interested in is the projected demand on BOM lower level components. We would like to forecast finished goods sales, and use that to plan component and sub-assembly demand in time for the forecasted sales.
If I place a component demand on these components, then I will get the suggestions from the planning that I need. That's nice, but the rub is, how do I determine these component forecast quantities?
I have found the sales analysis view, which gives historical data to easily use when generating forecasts. However, this is only sales data; I have not found a way to view consumption of low-level components in a manner that allows easy generation of component forecasting based on historical data.
Is there a way of generating such a consumption analysis view?
Is there a way of configuring the planing/forecast to look use sales forcast of finished goods to drive requisition of BOM components?
Thanks!
