Processing
Study Questions for Forecast Processing
1 What menu name and menu number would you use to run the system calculation for forecast simulation?
Menu Name:
2 Describe how the system shows forecast quantities for items that have no sales history.
3 Memo items and drop shipments are included in forecast calculations.
True False
4 You cannot produce a rolling forecast manually. Only yearly forecasts can be done manually.
True False
5 If you had a new item likely to have a similar sales history to an existing item, what function would you use to create forecast results for the new item? There are two possible answers.
a Menu Name:
b Menu Name:
6 Why is it advisable to archive the original forecast or copy to another forecast ID before modifying forecast detail records?
7 When performing a Simulation to Simulation copy, if the item ranges of target and source are different, what happens to the target? What happens to the source?
8 Forecast simulation records are in monthly buckets. MRP calculations use weekly buckets. What three ways can Simulation to Summarized Forecast load the detail records into the MRP summarized records?
a
b
c